Dante Gabriel Rossetti Paintings Art Posters Prints
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Charles Dante Rossetti was born in London on May 12, 1828, a son of Gabriele Rossetti. The father had been a political exile from Naples driven to desert his native country because his liberal politics. Gabriele moved to London where he was a professor of Italian. A literary scholar as well as large admirer of poet Dante Alighieri, Gabriele titled his first son after the great poet. Rossetti's Mother was a religious woman of solid intelligence and her religious belief would hence help mold on...

Rossetti- the Artist and the Man
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I have a few books in my library of Rossetti and look at them often when I need to feel a deeper emotion.His work is so pensive and seems to connect to the soul despite the fact that his work was painted so many years ago in history. Rossetti was a haunting character... be sure to read more about him and other artists you admire. Their treasures are there for you right between the lines of their thinking and motivations to do art. Tragedy often followed many artists in history but they had s...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) was an English poet and painter. The son of an Italian exile to England, Rossetti (along with Millais and Holman Hunt) formed the Pre-Rapahelite Brotherhood in 1848. Rossetti's poetry turned away from the modern world and instead sought a return to the passionate feeling, color and ideas of medieval times. His best-known poems were "The Blessed Damozel" and "Sister Helen". Rossetti's best-known paintings also look to the past (symbolical and mythological im...