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Biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Name: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Birth Date: May 12, 1828
Death Date: April 9, 1882
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter, poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The English painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was a cofounder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His works show an impassioned, mystic imagination in strong contrast to the banal sentimentality of contemporary Victorian art.Born on May 12, 1828, of Anglo-Italian parentage, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was steeped throughout childhood in the atmosphere of medieval Italy, which became a major source of his subject matter and artistic inspiration. After 2 years in the Royal Academy schools he worked briefly under Ford Madox Brown in 1848.Shortly after Rossetti joined William Holman Hunt's studio later that year, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed, in Hunt's words, "to do battle against the frivolous art of the day." An association of artists so varied in artistic style, technique, and expressive spirit as the Pre-Raphaelites could not long survive, and it was principally owing to Rossetti's forceful, almost hypnotic personality that the Brotherhood held together long enough to achieve the critical …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…his imaginative genius earned him a place in the ranks of English visionary artists. Further Reading The most recent work on Rossetti is G. H. Fleming, Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1967), a detailed study of his relations with the Brotherhood, which like Oswald Doughty's A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1949; 2d ed. 1960) is a general biography, not a specialized work on the paintings. Fundamental on the Pre-Raphaelites is William Holman Hunt's firsthand account, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (2 vols., 1905). Also important are Robin Ironside, Pre-Raphaelite Painters (1948); T. S. R. Boase, English Art, 1800-1870 (1959); and John Dixon Hunt, The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination, 1848-1900 (1968).Ash, Russell. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1995.Dobbs, Brian. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an alien Victorian, London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1977.Faxon, Alicia Craig. Dante Gabriel Rossetti , New York: Abbeville Press, 1989.Nicoll, John. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, New York: Macmillan, 1976, 1975.Waugh, Evelyn. Rossetti, his life and works , Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1978.
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