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

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Here are the paintings that they reference to compare this bodice with- 1. Titan's "La Bella" and Rossetti's "Veronica Veronese. However, it is also still very much in style with Edwardian fashion, mainly the Aesthetic movement.

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The Passover in the Holy Family Gathering Bitter Herbs, 1856 https://t.co/vfRqdNPA3h

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Portrait of the artist`s sister Christina and mother Frances, 1877 https://t.co/Temhj9xChK

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This week's is the tragic one of Joan of Arc, burned at the stake on 30th May 1431, aged just nineteen. Painted here by Millais (1865), Rossetti (1882), John Duncan and Albert Lynch (1903). This was the last painting Rossetti worked on- he died just a few days later.

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D. G. Rossetti, Monna Vanna, 1866
Alexa Wilding, una delle più belle modelle di R.

io vidi monna Vanna e monna Bice
venire inver lo loco là 'v'io era,
I'una appresso de l'altra maraviglia;
e sì come la mente mi ridice,
Amor mi disse: "Quell'è Primavera...
Dante Alighieri

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This week's features Lilith, Adam's first wife: 'The witch he loved before the gift of Eve'.
Painting & poem by Rossetti with the face of Fanny Cornforth (1867), Alexa Wilding (1866-1873), study (1866) & photo of Fanny: 'And her enchanted hair was the first gold'

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Beatrice, Meeting Dante at a Wedding Feast, Denies him her Salutation, 1855 https://t.co/qoUFjf8g2r

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Study for Predella No. 2, for "Dante's Dream": Dante Awakening from His Dream, 1879 https://t.co/I5XJIqMdNl

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