by Pauline Baynes depicting a scene from Goblin Market, the poem by Christina where a terrifying crowd of assorted plying a girl with ripe fruit in return for a lock of her golden hair.

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Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof, so stand
Thou too aloof, bound with the flawless band
Of inner solitude;

'Aloof': (1830-1894)

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🖼️'Aloof', 2002 : Aaron Waugh : ArtSlant

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✨Based on Rossetti’s Lady Lilith✨ s/o to everyone who guessed correctly😛

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"Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay:
The worst is death, and death will have his day."

Richard II, Act 3 Scene 2


Image: St George and the Dragon - The Skulls brought to the King, stained glass design by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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'Ventnor, Isle of Wight' (1856, Maas Gall) & 'Pear' ( ) by artist & activist Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891) for Bodichon befriended Siddal & Rossetti in Hastings, making this sketch of the former in 1854 (Mark Samuel Lasner Coll Delaware)

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Some masculine input for this week's Although far more associated with female portraiture, Rossetti's studies of men are both sensitive & impressive: head of farmer in 'Found' (1869), Ford Madox Brown (1867), male head study 1850s (Mus. of Fine Arts, Budapest).

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Home after my talk, and back to Jane Morris, born 1839.
A fine model & needlewoman, Jane embodied Guenevere, Pandora & Venus for D G Rossetti.
But she also had a 'delicious chuckling laugh'.
Her gardens at Kelmscott Manor were a haven for women artists in her later years.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882, An English poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.

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Study for ‘Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1852 https://t.co/96Nbuuhq5k

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

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

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Veridiana Victoria Rossetti fue la primera mujer en ejercer como ingeniera agrónoma en Brasil, siendo una gran especialista en las enfermedades de los cítricos.
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has never been more important
🧼

Dante Gabriel Rossetti shows us how, Washing Hands 1865

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When Eurydice dies from a snake bite, Persephone persuades her husband Hades to release Eurydice back to Orpheus. Sadly Orpheus proves incapable of following instructions & she ends up back in the underworld https://t.co/IvLMue2I7B (img: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

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It is often overlooked that once it was arranged that Persephone would return to the living world for 6 months every year, (one month for each pomegranate seed she had eaten), she became equal to Pluto in ruling the underworld & did so very well. Img: Rossetti

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Dante’s Vision of Rachel and Leah, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1855 https://t.co/5plYj0GJ9M

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