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Summary of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Recognized by history as an inspired but provocative nonconformist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti made his name initially as a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The Brotherhood challenged the "decadent" indulgences of the day by looking for inspiration and religious guidance in medieval art. Rather than produce dramatic historical narratives (as was the fashion of the day), The Brotherhood adhered to an inflexible set of puritanical and aesthetic standards of which Rossetti soon tired. He continued to paint his mythical parables with the same luminosity and attention to the finest picture detail, but Rossetti, who harboured longings to be recognised also the poet, became all-consumed with the idea of female beauty. His licentious lifestyle, though condemned by many of his colleagues, breathed erotic life, and it must be said, genuine personality, into his art. But with time, his destructive lifestyle led to his mental decline, but as often happens with after some time, this merely enhanced his legend as a prodigious maverick of the Victorian age.

Accomplishments

• As a leading light in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement, Rossetti looked back to a period before the High Renaissance. He took inspiration in the purity and symbolism of medieval and religious fables found in 15th-century Florentine and Sienese painting
• Rossetti is recognized predominantly as a portraitist. His preference was for religious subject-matter but as he matured as an artist his work proved most divisive because of his habit of using family members and lovers to represent holy icons.
• Rossetti was a founding member of the furnishing and decoration business, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. The company, established in , was admired for their complex and vivacious designs. Though he soon lost interest in decorative arts, and though his relationship with William Morris suffered as a result, Rossetti's designs stand as a tangible link between

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (–82)

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, –

Poet, painter, and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in London on 12 May , the second child and first son of Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti (–), an Italian expatriate, and his wife, Frances Mary Lavinia (née Polidori, –86), sister of Byron’s travelling physician, John William Polidori (–). Christened Gabriele Charles Dante Rossetti, he dropped the “Charles” and adopted the arrangement and spelling by which he is known about the time of the first public exhibition of his work in (see Rossetti, I, 80). His father, a Dante scholar and teacher of Italian at King’s College, London, was anti-papal and anti-sacerdotal, whereas his mother was a devout Anglican. The two sons, Dante Gabriel and William Michael (–), followed their father’s proclivity for religious skepticism (although Rossetti used Christian iconography in many paintings and poems). The two daughters, Maria Francesca (–76) and the poet Christina Georgina (–94), followed in their mother’s faith.

Rossetti attended King’s College School from to and in late was admitted to the Antique School of the Royal Academy. In early he began taking instruction in painting from Ford Madox Brown (–93). A year later, Rossetti publicly exhibited his work for the first time, a watercolour entitled “The Girlhood of Mary Virgin,” in the Free Exhibition of Modern Art at Hyde Park Corner. The work received encouraging notices. The Athenæum of 7 April deemed it “a manifestation of true mental power; in which Art is made the exponent of some high aim” and predicted a “lofty career” for the young artist (no. , p. ). Meanwhile, he had been writing poetry and translating Italian poets. His productions in the latter pursuit, which included his brilliant translation of Dante’s La Vita Nuova, would appear in The Early Italian Poets (). Among his own poetic composit

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Biography

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (~), English poet and painter, whose full baptismal name was Gabriel Charles Dante, was born on the &#;12th of May , at 38 Charlotte Street, Portland Place, London. He was the first of the two sons and the second of the four children of Gabriele Rossetti (), an Italian poet and liberal.

Education

Dante Rossetti&#;s education was begun at a private school in Foley Street, Portland Place, where he remained, however, only nine months, from the autumn of to the summer of He next went (in the autumn of ) to King&#;s College School, where he remained till the summer of , having reached the fourth class.

From early childhood he had displayed a marked propensity for drawing and painting. It had therefore from the first been tacitly assumed that his future career would be an artistic one, and he left school early. In Latin, however, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was already fairly proficient for his age; French he knew well; Italian he had spoken from childhood, and he had some German lessons about *4S. But, although he learned enough German to be able to translate the Arnie Heinrich of Hartmann von Aue, and some portions of the Nibelungenlied, he afterwards forgot the language almost entirely. His Greek too, such as it had been, he lost.

On leaving school he went () to Cary&#;s Art Academy (previously called Sass&#;s), near Bedford Square, and thence obtained admission to the Royal Academy Antique School towards Of the artistic education of foreign travel Rossetti had very little. But in early life he made a short tour in Belgium, where he was indubitably much impressed and influenced by the works of Van Eyck at Ghent and Memling at Bruges.

Rossetti as an artist

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English poet and artist (–)

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May &#;– 9 April ), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (rə-ZET-ee;Italian:[rosˈsetti]), was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti inspired the next generation of artists and writers, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones in particular. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.

Rossetti's art was characterised by its sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats and William Blake. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence The House of Life. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work. He frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his pictures, spanning from The Girlhood of Mary Virgin () and Astarte Syriaca (), while also creating art to illustrate poems such as Goblin Market by the poet Christina Rossetti, his sister.

Rossetti's personal life was closely linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses Elizabeth Siddal (whom he married), Fanny Cornforth, and Jane Morris.

Early life

The son of émigré Italian scholar Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti and his wife Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti was born in London, on 12 May His family and friends called him Gabriel, but in publications he put the name Dante first in honour of Dante Alighieri. He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, critic William Michael Rossetti, and author Maria Francesca Rossetti. His father was a Roman Catholic, at least prior to his marriage, and his mother was an Anglican; ostensibly Gabriel was baptised as and was a practising Anglican.