“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,
But as the meaning of all things that are.”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dante-...
🎨 #DanteGabrielRossetti, English #PreRaphaelite painter and poet, #DOTD 9 April 1882. #Art #Painting
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1868. “Venus Verticordia” (Detail)
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Nami as Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Venus Verticordia🧡 I saw her holding the apple and was like but what if they were tangerines?I've been having a kind of "what even is my style" moment so it's nice to do something like a study to change things up #nami #onepiece #masterstudy #dantegabrielrossetti
British artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti recasts Helen as both beauty and calamity in an image of desire whose spark topples empires. On the reverse, he inscribed Greek epithets from Aeschylus “destroyer of ships, destroyer of men, destroyer of cities” to make explicit the nexus of eros and ruin that Victorian audiences knew well. He even wrote home in early 1863 asking for stereoscopic views of cities and fleets to help him paint Troy in the background, fusing classical subject with modern visual aids and the Pre-Raphaelite taste for exacting detail. She faces us at bust length, centered and still, with light skin and wavy copper-gold hair that fans to her shoulders. Her gaze is steady, almost challenging, with heavy eyelids. Her lips are full and soft. A warm, amber garment with patterned trim crosses her chest as a narrow cord gathers the fabric at the neckline. In her hands, she lifts a small flame pendent whose glow seems to kiss her cheek. Along the upper edge, the distant city smolders with dark silhouettes of towers and ramparts against a smoky sky plus hints of ships and conflagration beyond. The palette burns with reds, ochres, and browns. The polished panel surface heightens the dense color and the sculptural modeling of her face. The space is shallow and theatrical with Helen pressing forward while destruction flickers behind her. The model is Annie Miller, a frequent presence in Pre-Raphaelite circles; her strong features and abundant hair helped Rossetti shape the archetype of the commanding, self-possessed heroine that would culminate in later figures like Lilith and Proserpine. Painted the year after the death of his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, the picture also tracks the artist’s turn from narrative scenes to iconic women, where myth becomes psychology. Shown close and frontal, Helen is not a passive prize but an agent: she grips fire, framed by a city she cannot quite save or disown for a meditation on responsibility, allure, and consequence.
“Helen of Troy” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British) – Oil on panel / 1863 – Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany) #WomenInArt #Pre-Raphaelite #PortraitofaWoman #AnnieMiller #BlueskyArt #DanteGabrielRossetti #Rosetti #art #artText #artwork #bskyart #HamburgerKunsthalle #BritishArt #BritishArtist
New exhibition by the Hampshire Cultural Trust reveals how nature inspired the imagination and art of the Morris family... read more on thedirt.news #DanteGabrielRossetti #exhibition #JaneMorris #MayMorris #WilliamMorris #WilliamMorrisSociety (Snowdrops
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"It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived."
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Digital recreation of #DanteGabrielRossetti co-founder of the influential Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Portrait of #ElizabethSiddal (1829-1862), who was #BornOnThisDay
1850
Delaware Art Museum
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Portrait of #ElizabethSiddal (1829-1862), who was #BornOnThisDay
1850
The Fitzwilliam Museum
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Celebrating the birthdays of both Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Dries Van Noten today.✨✨✨
An outtake from a self-portrait session I did last year celebrating such. Jacket DVN SS2000, shirt DVN SS2017.
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"It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived."
Happy Birthday to Dante Gabriel Rossetti!
In the Lady Chapel there are several panels designed by Rossetti.
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“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,
But as the meaning of all things that are.”
#Poetry: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dante-...
🎨 #DanteGabrielRossetti, English poet and painter, founder of the #PreRaphaelite Brotherhood, was #BOTD 12 May 1828. #Art #Painting
We finish #nationalpoetrymonth with wisdom from an early matriarch, Sappho's, here translated by Dante Gabriel Rosetti, which remind us how freedom and innocence can be both treasured and trampled.
#Sappho #Poetry #OneGirl #DanteGabrielRossetti #goodmedicine #AncientWisdom #FeminineStrength
PROSERPINE
Inspired by the poem and the hidden portrait on back of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Proserpine”, the Roman Goddess of Spring who dwells half of the year in the Underworld with her husband Pluto. #handmade #artisanjewelry #proserpine #romanmythology #dantegabrielrossetti
“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,
But as the meaning of all things that are.”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dante-...
🎨 #DanteGabrielRossetti, English #PreRaphaelite painter and poet, #DOTD 9 April 1882. #Art #Painting
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862. “Goblin Market.”
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The woman in this painting is depicted in the British Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty with her pale face, full lips, and thick, wavy, chestnut hair. Painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of 19th-century British artists and writers. They admired early Italian Renaissance art (pre-Raphael) and advocated the direct observation of nature, in contrast to what they saw as the insincere and overly polished British academic style. Beatrice dominates the composition, but Dante can be seen in the background, comforted by the winged personification of Love. In 1861, Rossetti published a translation of the Vita Nuova (New Life) by his namesake Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), a series of autobiographical sonnets detailing Dante’s unrequited love for Florentine belle Beatrice Portinari. The Salutation of Beatrice illustrates lines from the second sonnet in Vita Nuova. His translation begins, "My lady looks so gentle and so pure. When yielding salutation by the way, That the tongue trembles and has nought to say, And the eyes, which fain would see, may not endure". At the Toledo Museum of Art, you can read the entire poem—both in the original Italian and in Rossetti’s English translation—on the gilded frame, which Rossetti designed specifically for this painting.
The Salutation of Beatrice by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British) - Oil on canvas / 1880-1882 - Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) #womeninart #art #PreRaphaelite #artwork #fineart #womensart #oilpainting #Pre-Raphaelite #Rossetti #DanteGabrielRossetti #beauty #ToledoMuseumofArt #britishart #VitaNuova
The sitter for this painting was Jane Morris, the wife of William Morris, who often posed for Rossetti. At the time this was painted Rossetti was involved in an illicit love affair with Jane. He shows her sitting in the branches of a sycamore tree and holding a sprig of honeysuckle. This sweet-smelling climbing plant symbolised the bonds of love for the Victorians, and Rossetti may have included it here as a subtle reference to the relationship between artist and model. Rossetti was also a poet, and the title relates to his poem of the same name which ends: She dreams; till now on her forgotten book Drops the forgotten blossom from her hand. Eccentric, egotistical, yet extremely sensitive, Rossetti was a force to be reckoned with. Early on, he alternated between painting and poetry, but he is best known for founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood along with John Everett Millais. Rebelling against English academic painting's soft forms and what appeared to be a lax morality, the Brotherhood aspired to a crisp, emotional style embracing the purity and simplicity of Italian art before Raphael. Using minute detail and elaborate symbolism, they painted from nature. Rossetti expanded the group's aims by linking poetry, painting, and social idealism and by interpreting the term Pre-Raphaelite as synonymous with a romanticized medieval past. In the second phase of the movement beginning in the 1850s, Rossetti painted and drew mostly languid and sensuous female portraits, using his lover Elizabeth Siddal almost exclusively as a model. Rossetti grew affluent enough to employ studio assistants to make copies. Rossetti published his complete poems in 1870, after exhuming them from Siddal's grave. Following a physical and mental collapse and a suicide attempt, he recovered enough to continue painting and writing but only as a semi-invalid and recluse.
The Day Dream (with Jane Morris) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English) - Oil on canvas / 1880 - Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England) #womeninart #rossetti #art #oilpainting #VictoriaandAlbertMuseum #fineart #artwork #womensart #DanteGabrielRossetti #V&A #Pre-Raphaelite #painting #romanticism
The Day-Dream
Painting and poem by Dante Gabriel #Rossetti,
in the V & A #Museum, #London
from the collections at theotherpages.org
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#victoriaandalbertmuseum #v&a #v&amuseum
My ladies.
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A woman in typical pre Raphaelite attire hangs mistletoe on a Christmas tree
Pre raphaelites could NEVER paint hands!
Fact!
Hanging the Miseltoe 1860 #DanteGabrielRossetti
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1855/ Dimensions 25.4 cm × 44.9 cm (10.0 in × 17.7 in)
WaterColour
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#Symbolism
The Water Willow, depicts Jane Morris (wife of William Morris) in her natural habitat. Seeing it in person at the Delaware Art Museum was sublime… @delartmuseum #dantegabrielrossetti #therossettis #preraphaelite #janemorris
#TalDiaComoHoy en 1828 nacía Dante Gabriel Rossetti, miembro fundador de la Hermandad Prerrafaelita, pintor prerrafaelita y líder de la segunda generación prerrafaelita. #DanteGabrielRossetti
“I Want Browning,”—like small boys want taffy'. #DanteGabrielRossetti pesters the publisher for #RobertBrownings new poems. (Holman Hunt reports). #PreRaphaelite #doggerel
Feast your eyes on newly-digitized #DanteGabrielRossetti archive material @ransomcenter!
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