Caricature of William Morris presenting a ring to Jane Burden, 1857. Sketched by Dante Gabriel Rossetti on the back of a study for Guenevere (Launcelot at the Shrine of the Holy Grail). I've put a filter on Jane & William image 2.

Jane married William Morris in 1859.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mnemosyne, 1881 (#PreRaphaelitism).

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This is Dante Gabriel Rossetti's amazing and beautiful 1861 painting, Fair Rosamund!!

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England had been experiencing a religious revival in the 1840s. Rossetti was caught up in the fervour. St Catherine (1857), The Lady of Shallot (1857) & The Tune of Seven Towers (1857)

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Rossetti also painted & drew Arthurian legends & these would also inspire Edward Burne-Jones. Dante’s Vision (1855), Paolo & Francesca (1855) & Jane Burden (1857). Some of his models were minor artists.

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When Eurydice dies from a snake bite, Persephone persuades her husband Hades to release Eurydice back to her husband, Orpheus. Sadly Orpheus proves incapable of following instructions & she ends up back in the underworld (image by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

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This is Dante Gabriel Rossetti's amazing 1866 painting, Monna Vanna!!

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, study for Paolo and Francesca, c. 1855

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"𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒚: 𝑩𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚" -Christina Rossetti
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She's now fully redesigned :D

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Chapel before the Lists, 1857 https://t.co/XxZTyfwSnO

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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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In Focus: The strangely successful career of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the artist 'whose influence was far greater than his output warranted' https://t.co/nfuhbzVLEX

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The Damsel of the Sanct Grael or Holy Grail, 1874

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Starting a series of depictions of characters from Shakespeare for our Today it's Hamlet & Ophelia with paintings & drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1864 Gallery Oldham, 1858 British Museum,1865 , & 1866 )

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