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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti inspired many contemporary artists and writers, such as Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones. His later work also influenced th…
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culture · English poet and artist (1828–1882) · poet · illustrator · painter · translator · writer · artist · draftsperson · also Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante G. Rossetti, D. G. Rossetti, Dante Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, D. G. Rosetti
Born 12 May 1828 · Died 9 April 1882 · Q186748
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2026· 2 entries
Princeton University: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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2018· 1 entry
ELLE: Le storie d’amore nella storia dell’arte: la passione tragica e sublime tra Dante Gabriel Rossetti ed Elizabeth Siddal
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1916· 1 entry
"Rossetti more than any other artist since Blake may be hailed as a forerunner of the new ideas" in English Art
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1904· 2 entries
Phoebe Anna Traquair painted The Awakening, inspired by a sonnet from Rossetti's The House of Life
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) created his song cycle The House of Life from six poems by Rossetti
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1882· 2 entries
Died 1882-04-09.
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“I have been here before,But when or how I cannot tell:I know the grass beyond the door,The sweet, keen smell,The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.”
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1881· 1 entry
Rossetti published a second volume of poems, Ballads and Sonnets, which included the remaining sonnets from The House of Life sequence
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1874· 1 entry
Morris reorganised his decorative arts firm, cutting Rossetti out of the business, and the polite fiction that both men were in residence with Jane at Kelmscott could not be maintained
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1869· 2 entries
Did so, collating and publishing them in 1870 in the volume Poems by D
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Morris and Rossetti rented a country house, Kelmscott Manor at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, as a summer home, but it became a retreat for Rossetti and Jane Morris
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1865· 2 entries
And was immediately struck by her beauty
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Discovered auburn-haired Alexa Wilding, a dressmaker and would-be actress who was engaged to model for him on a full-time basis and sat for Veronica Veronese, The Blessed Damozel, A Sea–Spell, and other paintings
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1862· 1 entry
Siddall died of an overdose of laudanum, shortly after giving birth to a stillborn child
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1861· 1 entry
Rossetti became a founding partner in the decorative arts firm, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co
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1860· 1 entry
After a long engagement, during which Rossetti was serially unfaithful, and Siddal became addicted to laudanum
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1857· 2 entries
Also sat for him during these years, she "consumed and obsessed him in paint, poetry, and life"
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And known colloquially as the 'Moxon Tennyson')
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1856· 1 entry
To promote his ideas about art and poetry
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1855· 1 entry
A letter to poet William Allingham, in reference to his work on the Moxon Tennyson:I have not begun even designing for them yet, but fancy I shall try the Vision of Sin, and Palace of Art etc
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1853· 1 entry
And still unfinished at his death, was his only major modern-life subject
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1850· 2 entries
And the "increasingly hysterical critical reaction that greeted Pre-Raphaelitism" that year, Rossetti turned to watercolours, which could be sold privately
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Rossetti contributed his poem, "The Blessed Damozel", and a story about a fictional early Italian artist inspired by a vision of a woman who bids him combine the human and the divine in his art
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1849· 3 entries
Features an altar decorated very similarly to that of a Catholic altar
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Displays his main character Chiaro as an artist with spiritual inclinations
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Or 1850, Rossetti met Elizabeth Siddal, who had entered the Pre-Raphaelite circle after being noticed by Walter Deverell while working in a milliner's in Leicester Square
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1848· 2 entries
Their pieces of art included subjects of noble or religious disposition
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With William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais
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1828· 1 entry
Born 1828-05-12.
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