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Portrait of Emma Madox Brown by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1856. This was Rossetti's wedding gift portrait upon her marriage to artist Ford Madox Brown.
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2021-06-29

Not having a good day! Study for one of the Pairs of Lovers, The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1876.

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2021-06-20

A pen and brown ink sketch of artist, poet and model Elizabeth Siddal by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, born in 1828.

See works by both Rossetti and Siddal in 'Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours', opening 18 May.

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2021-05-12

Happy Birthday Dante Gabriel Rossetti, born in 1828. Here a sampling of his sumptuous paintings through the decades:
'The Girlhood of Mary Virgin' 1849
'The Tune of the Seven Towers' 1857
'The Beloved' 1866
'The Blessed Damozel' (1871-8)

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2021-05-12

"A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour."
✒ English poet and painter, was born 12 May 1828.

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2021-05-12

Dante Gabriele Rossetti, Study for "Venus Verticordia" https://t.co/2Wl5Esm2f6

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2021-05-05

Christina Georgina Rossetti, Portrait of William Michael Rossetti, c. 1853 https://t.co/6lBEDM0FH2

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2021-05-03

"Nascere non basta. È per rinascere che siamo nati. Ogni giorno."

(Pablo Neruda)

🖌Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Il sogno ad occhi aperti, 1880

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2021-04-04

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Portrait of Mrs. Vernon Lushington, 1865 https://t.co/oK78sM6zJp

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2021-04-02

"Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges...'"
-Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"

🖼: A. Rackham

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2021-03-22

The Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti, 1862. Two sisters: one is tempted by the fruit at the goblin market & almost wastes away. The other saves her sibling in body & soul by resisting the goblins with their fruit, at all costs. Img: A. Rackham, 1933

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2021-03-18

'The Damsel of the Holy Grail' - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874

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2021-02-16

"Lady Lilith," Dante Rossetti, 1868.

Rossetti described his subject as a "modern Lilith," which suggests an unfortunate degree of Victorian infanticide but a very fortunate degree of Victorian cowgirl.

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2021-02-05

Goblin Market is a long narrative poem by & tells the of sisters, Laura & Lizzie, & the river Illustrated here by A for children or an expression of Rosetti’s feminism & homosexuality? You decide.

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2021-01-26

Portrait of Mrs. Vernon Lushington, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1865 https://t.co/0I2UgE2Q16

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2020-12-21