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1828 London, England - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England. Known for: Religious and allegorical painting, idealized women.
A painter and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a key member of the Pre-Raphaelites in England, a group of painters and poets led by Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Holman Hunt and John Millais. Their... Read full biography
A painter and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a key member of the Pre-Raphaelites in England, a group of painters and poets led by Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Holman Hunt and John Millais. Their aesthetic goal was to return to a medieval period, 'pre Raphael', meaning before the influence of... Read full biography
A painter and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a key member of the Pre-Raphaelites in England, a group of painters and poets led by Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Holman Hunt and John Millais. Their aesthetic goal was to return to a medieval period, 'pre Raphael', meaning before the influence of the painter Raphael (1483-1520) and to re-vitalize the medieval focus on religion and realism that held closely to nature. Rossetti was born to the exiled Italian scholar, Gabriel Rossetti, and was the... Read full biography
A painter and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a key member of the Pre-Raphaelites in England, a group of painters and poets led by Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Holman Hunt and John Millais. Their aesthetic goal was to return to a medieval period, 'pre Raphael', meaning before the influence of the painter Raphael (1483-1520) and to re-vitalize the medieval focus on religion and realism that held closely to nature. Rossetti was born to the exiled Italian scholar, Gabriel Rossetti, and was the brother of Christina Rossetti, a prominent poet. Dante Rosetti became a student from 1845 to 1847 at the Royal Academy Antique School, and there began the association with Hunt and Millais. Rossetti's early Pre-Raphaelite paintings had religious and... Read full biography
A painter and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a key member of the Pre-Raphaelites in England, a group of painters and poets led by Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Holman Hunt and John Millais. Their aesthetic goal was to return to a medieval period, 'pre Raphael', meaning before the influence of the painter Raphael (1483-1520) and to re-vitalize the medieval focus on religion and realism that held closely to nature. Rossetti was born to the exiled Italian scholar, Gabriel Rossetti, and was the brother of Christina Rossetti, a prominent poet. Dante Rosetti became a student from 1845 to 1847 at the Royal Academy Antique School, and there began the association with Hunt and Millais. Rossetti's early Pre-Raphaelite paintings had religious and mystical symbolism, but criticism of his painting, led him to show his paintings in private circumst... Read full biography
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A painter and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a key member of the Pre-Raphaelites in England, a group of painters and poets led by Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Holman Hunt and John Millais.
Their aesthetic goal was to return to a medieval period, 'pre Raphael', meaning before the influence of the painter Raphael (1483-1520) and to re-vitalize the medieval focus on religion and realism that held closely to nature.
Rossetti was born to the exiled Italian scholar, Gabriel Rossetti, and was the brother of Christina Rossetti, a prominent poet. Dante Rosetti became a student from 1845 to 1847 at the Royal Academy Antique School, and there began the association with Hunt and Millais.
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