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

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Beatrice, Meeting Dante at a Wedding Feast, Denies him her Salutation, 1855

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Something fishy 🐟🐠 for this week's courtesy of William de Morgan , Burne-Jones ('Lady Feeding Gold-Fish', 1860 ) and D.G.Rossetti's caricature of 'William Morris Fishing in a Punt' (1871, British Museum)

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Wishing Happy to all ourJewish followers and readers, and their families, knowing you'll all be together in spirit if not in person. This is watercolour, "Passover in the Holy Family: Gathering Bitter Herbs," 1855-56. https://t.co/gZa8CE9syr

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation)

1849–50
Oil paint on canvas
28 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches
Tate Gallery _ London


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"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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In ‘Goblin Market’, Christina Rossetti experiments with language, form and imagery to create a world of temptation and mystery.Dr Dinah Roe considers Rossetti’s influences and the ways in which the poem has been illustrated and interpreted https://t.co/HeSTxcsFTm

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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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Mother Goddesses such as Isis, Cybele & Kali were said to command weather by braiding or releasing their hair. In European lore, witches' hair controlled the weather and some folk said when placed in water such hair became serpents...

🎨Rossetti

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Also tonight - IN HER OWN WORDS by about artist Elizabeth Siddal. A poet & a painter who's so often talked about in relation to Dante Rossetti or the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood...but who is she, on her own terms? >> https://t.co/luxzhxjzfG
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'O pang-dowered Poet, whose reverberant lips
And heart-strung lyre awoke the Moon’s eclipse'

Dante Gabriel Rossetti goes the full John Keats in his 'Writ in Water' sonnet.

Dr Dinah Roe reads & discusses the poem on the K-S Prize Podcast: https://t.co/2bA4R8hVnp

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~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1879)

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~ 1828-1882

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