Asuka, presumed Eve-type, lies underneath as Shinji strangles her. Below is Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 1867 portrait of Lilith, who he imagines as "a self-absorbed [...] beauty who combs her hair and seductively exposes her shoulders" (MET website). Asuka is not Eve.

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

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“O live your hand where it lies cool
Upon the eyes whose lids are hot:
Its rosy shade is bountiful
Of silence, and assuages thought.
O lay your lips against your hand
And let me feel your breath through it...”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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The Day Dream (1880) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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In her recent live talk for on the curator Victoria Osborne mentioned Saint Cecilia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,1856-57, as one of her favourite works in 's collection. Find out more in this podcast from a few years ago!
https://t.co/08egFEuYP8

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“se forse vivrò, tuo miserando
servo, sarà mia vita senza scopo
nella foschia della sventura inutile –
perduto dal palato della mente
il gusto e resa l’ambizione cieca.”

Sonetto XVI


Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Another from our Dreams & Nightmares exhibition. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's study depicts 'Fair Rosamund' lost in a daydream of her lover King Henry II. Rosamund was modelled by Fanny Cornforth and was likely based on Tennyson's poem 'A Dream of Fair Women'.

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During lockdown lots of people have experienced unusual dreams but how many of us can paint them like this?
‘Dante’s Dream’ an epic, sensual work by is inspired by Italian poet, Dante Alighieri’s poem, La Vita Nuova & loaded with complex symbols.

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Resident Evil (2002) features two real-world paintings among the myriad of paintings found throughout the Spencer Mansion.

"Proserpine" (Persephone) by PRB painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and "Judith Beheading Holofernes" by Baroque artist, Caravaggio.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

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Born in 1828: (1828-82), member of the

Portrait of Margaret Anne Thompson (1833-65), 1852

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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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en 1828 nacía Dante Gabriel Rossetti, miembro fundador de la Hermandad Prerrafaelita, pintor prerrafaelita y líder de la segunda generación prerrafaelita.

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Like the March wind, I don't give peace.
I enjoy lashing every dormant soul, and drawing it's anger a lively impetus to feel it vibrate between my fingers.

dearest Alessandra and all.
D Rossetti

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A collaboration between Morris & birthday boy D.G.Rossetti for
DGR's 'Two Designs for a Sofa' (with measurements & notes mostly by Morris).
The settee was created & exhibited by Morris's co in 1862 & appeared in DGR's 'Joseph Accused Before Potiphar' ()

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in 1828, images are: oil painting - Beata Beatrix (finished by Ford Madox Brown), chalk portrait - Fanny Cornforth and ink drawing - Love's Mirror or a Parable of Love.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born this 1828.
Herewith a selection of paintings throughout the stages & styles of his career.
'Self-Portrait' (1847 NPG)
'The Girlhood of Mary Virgin' (1849 Tate)
'The Tune of the 7 Towers '(1857 Tate)
'Joan of Arc' (1882 Fitzwilliam Museum)

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