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  Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti and the critic William Michael Rossetti and a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt.
Rossetti became increasingly depressed, and buried the bulk of his unpublished poems in her grave at Highgate Cemetery.
Rossetti described the sonnet form as a 'moment's monument', implying that it sought to contain the feelings of a fleeting moment, and to reflect upon their meaning.
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was the brother of Christina Rossetti and a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt.
Rossetti became increasingly depressed and buried bulk of his unpublished poems in her at Highgate Cemetery.
This was part of Rossetti's sonnet The House of Life a complex series of poems tracing physical and spiritual development of an intimate Rossetti described the sonnet form as a monument' implying that it sought to contain feelings of a fleeting moment and to upon their meaning.
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 AllRefer.com - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti[dan´tE gA´brEul rOset´E] Pronunciation Key, 1828–82, English poet and painter; son of Gabriele Rossetti and brother of Christina Rossetti.
In it was printed "The Blessed Damozel" by Dante Gabriel, written when he was 19 and considered by many to be his best poem.
Rossetti, in a fit of guilt and grief, buried with her a manuscript containing a number of his poems.
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti - abook4all.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti had two artistic sisters, Maria and Christina and his brother was an emminent art critic.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt shared a studio together, through Hunt, Rossetti has acquainted with Millais and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was born in 1848.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti died In 1882 on easter sunday at the country house of a friend.
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in the same year as Jules Verne, another Utopian novelist like friend William Morris.
The elder Rossetti was a Dante scholar who raised his children with a high-minded classical sense-- they all went on to become published writers, the most famous being Gabriel and his poet sister Christina.
Rossetti was madly in love with her, and for a long time she was his muse in both words and on the canvas (though they were said to sit silently, heads huddled together, for hours).
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 D.G. Rossetti
Brother of poet Christina Rossetti, painter and poet too, who was in the 1840s one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Rossetti's poems are distinguished by fantasy, leading the reader to times past, to medieval colour, Arthurian legend, and Dantesque mysticism.
Dante Gabriel Rosetti was born in London, the son of the poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori Rossetti, sister of Byron's physician, Dr. John Polidori.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /dgrosset.htm   (839 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Rossetti had been swept away by his colorful, but naturalistic interpretations of stories, and his medieval-like pictures from stories by some of the great authors of English literature, all done in a Nazarene style.
Rossetti met Brown after writing him such a flattering letter that the latter thought that he was just making fun of him and went round to remonstrate with the young man armed with a big stick.
Rossetti loved her from a distance for the rest of his life and painted her likeness again and again in his later years.
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gabriel Charles Rossetti, named after the Italian poet Dante Alghieri, was the son of an Italian patriot and his wife living in London.
He adopted the name Dante in response to his father's admiration for the great Italian poet, and later in life made the story of Dante and his beloved Beatrice part of his personal and artistic mythology.
In the late 1860s, Rossetti fell commenced a long affair with Jane Morris, the wife of his friend William; she served as model for many of his poems from this period on.
www.uoguelph.ca /englit/victorian/INTRO/rosset-d.html   (258 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Collected Writings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti allow the reader to enter the world of pre-Raphaelite poetry, to study the interaction between verbal and visual arts and to assess Rossetti's place in the canon of Victorian literature.
Resurrecting Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a major literary figure and visual artist of the second half of the nineteenth century, this book is a conscious reaction to the last sixty years of literary criticism - in which Rossetti's work has been diminished and downplayed.
McGann asserts the enormity of Rossetti's accomplishment by pointing out that Rossetti was the central artistic and intellectual figure of his generation, whose influence extended from Swinburne to Wilde to Yeats of Pound.
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 NYRB: Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82), the son of an exiled Italian scholar and revolutionary, studied painting at the Royal Academy of Arts and was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Though he is best known as a painter, Rossetti was also a poet, and his poems, along with his translations of Dante and François Villon, made a lasting impression on such writers as Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, and Ezra Pound.
The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death.
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The son of an émigré Italian scholar, Rossetti was born in London, England.
He was publishing translations of Dante and other Medieval Italian poets, his art also sought to adopt the stylistic characteristics of the their contemporaries.
He tended to portray his new lover Fanny Cornforth as the epitome of physical eroticism, while Jane Morris, the wife of his business partner William Morris, was glamorised as an ethereal goddess.
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 Geometry.Net - Artists: Rossetti Dante Gabriel
The elder Rossetti was a Dante scholar who raised his children with a high-minded classical sense they all went on to become published writers, the most famous being Gabriel and his poet sister Christina Though of Italian descent, Rossetti was really more the Englishman and never even visited Italy in his lifetime.
Extractions: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828-1882) Biography Dante Gabriel Rossetti was undoubtedly the most inspired of the Pre-Raphaelites, with his personal vision of the medieval world of the Arthurian legends which he painted with an intensity never before seen in art, with the exception perhaps of the visionary paintings of William Blake.
Rossetti was prostrate with grief at the funeral.
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 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(dăn´tē gā´brēel rōsĕt´ē), 1828-82, English poet and painter; son of Gabriele Rossetti and brother of Christina Rossetti.
Death and the maidens; As a major exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's work opens at the Walker gallery, Liverpool, LYNNE WALKER decides that his passion for the gravely beautiful may have done the artist a...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the interrogative lyric.(Critical Essay)
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was the central figure of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Rossetti (and Burne-Jones) was also much involved in Morris's Arts and Crafts firm (Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co) from its beginning at the start of the 1860s, designing stained glass windows and much else.
Rossetti's paintings are distinguished by his eye for beauty, choice of subjects and intensity of vision.
www.speel.demon.co.uk /artists/rossetti.htm   (582 words)

  
 Christina Rossetti
One of the most important of English woman poets, who was the sister of the painter-poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and a member of the Pre-Raphaelite art movement.
Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), professor of Italian at King's College from 1831.
Rossetti's first verses were written in 1842 and printed in the private press of her grandfather.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /rossetti.htm   (925 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The picture was A Vision of Fiammetta by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who, more than 40 years on from the founding of his Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was racked by drink and drugs and just two years from death.
For example, in a study for the "Seed of David" altarpiece by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), the figure of David is rendered with beautiful modeling and naturalism in a shockingly low number of pencil strokes.
Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt, who in 1848 were students at the academy, formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with the idea of returning to the spiritual purity that preceded Raphael, Michelangelo and other Italian artists of the...
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 ARC :: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) :: Page 1 of 12
Rossetti was born in London, the son of an Italian immigrant family, the poet Christina Rossetti was his sister.
Mr Rossetti was born in London in May 1828, the son of Mr Gabriel Rossetti, the famous Italian poet, and Dante scholar, who had come to England as a refugee after the Neapolitan revolution in 1821.
Mr Rossetti’s name became familiar to the public in connection with the so-called Pre-Raphaelite movement, a style of painting founded essentially upon the early Florentine school, in combination with a strict adherence to nature, and strongly opposed to the platitudes of academic art as practised in those days.
www.artrenewal.org /asp/database/museum_template.asp?artist=76   (1996 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti - an exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was one of the most unusual and original of all Victorian artists.
Visit the web-links page to see other Rossetti resources and some of the galleries that lent works to the exhibition.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Walker Art Gallery was sponsored by Unisys http://www.unisys.com/uk [opens new window]
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /walker/exhibitions/rossetti/index.asp   (234 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The M's at Ems, a pen drawing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This drawing of the couple by Rossetti was enclosed in a letter to Jane with the comment 'The accompanying cartoon will prepare you for the worst - which ever that may be, the seven tumblers or the 7 volumes'.
Rossetti had met Jane Morris (née Burden) in Oxford when she was seventeen.
She became a close friend of Rossetti and one of the models he employed most frequently.
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Online
Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
All images and text on this Dante Gabriel Rossetti page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/rossetti_dante_gabriel.html   (352 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–82, English poet and painter; son of Gabriele Rossetti and brother of Christina Rossetti.
Gabriele Rossetti - Rossetti, Gabriele, 1783–1854, Italian poet and critic; father of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and...
Christina Georgina Rossetti - Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830–94, English poet; sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) รจ il principale esponente della Confraternita dei Preraffaelliti, costituita in Inghilterra nel 1848.
I quadri preraffaelliti di Rossetti sono pervasi da una dimensione del silenzio che risuona di note sensuali e decadenti.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti fu anche poeta, riproponendo nei suoi sonetti la stessa poetica di estetizzazione spiritualizzata ed ultra-raffinata che caratterizza anche i suoi quadri.
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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One silent night, probably, you will notice that nowadays society has turned into void and the only think that can patch the hole in our fame as homo sapiens is art through all its expressions, whether we talk about music or poetry.
It is a pitiful situation as those who beautify the mind are rare and soon will reach extinction as this society can no longer produce any form of commitment, especially towards art.
So save your soul, run away from the TV screen and learn about a new life in the creation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
www.wonderful-people.com /People/UKmasters/index3/cami610016.htm   (212 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Art History: Artists: R: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Artcyclopedia (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) - Offers links to museums and galleries whose holdings include works by Rossetti, in addition to image archives where Rossetti's work can be viewed online.
Rossetti as an Illustrator - Features notes on Rossetti's book-illustrations, along with a number of useful links to PRB and London art.
WebMuseum (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) - Provides an introduction to Rossetti's visual art, along with a number of viewable images of the paintings.
www.dmoz.org /Arts/Art_History/Artists/R/Rossetti,_Dante_Gabriel   (404 words)

  
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The photographer is unknown but each image was posed by Dante Gabriel and bears the stamp of his inspiration.
The value of the series transcends the self-evident use the artist put them to in his pictures, for the angles of hands, tilting of the head, folds of drapery and so on.
The fact that she remains as elusive as when drawn or painted by him goes some way to explaining his obsession: maybe he felt able to project so much onto her precisely because her real nature remained submerged.
www.libfl.ru /pre-raph/Rossetti.html   (242 words)

  
 WebMuseum: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Romantic love was Rossetti's main theme in both poetry and painting.
Toward the end of his life, Rossetti sank into a morbid state, possibly induced by his disinterment (1869) of the manuscript poems he had buried with his wife and by savage critical attacks on his poetry.
This painting also reflects Rossetti's greif after the death of his wife, Elisabeth Siddal, the model for Beatrice, painted from memory after her death.
sunsite.unc.edu /wm/paint/auth/rossetti   (336 words)

  
 The Richmond Review, Book Review, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet by Jan Marsh
With her deep knowledge of the Pre-Raphaelites in general and the Rossetti family in particular Jan Marsh has produced what must remain for many years the definitive source book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his work.
Of his early days as a painter she says, 'Gabriel Rossetti appeared to exist on virtually nothing, and credit.
His life spanned a period which saw the development of art and literature in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the arrival of the Romantics, against a backdrop of an explosion of invention and discovery.
www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/rossetti.html   (492 words)

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