Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828–1882)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born on this day in 1828. Fascinated by women’s physical allure, Rossetti imagines a legendary femme fatale as a self-absorbed nineteenth-century beauty who combs her hair and seductively exposes her shoulders. http://met.org/1UOhgpC

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828–1882) | Henry Treffry Dunn (British, 1838–1899) | Lady Lilith | 1867

Poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti died on April 9th 1882. He was key to the foundation of the influential Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which rejected the styles of the Royal Academy and sought "truth to nature"

FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics

"Portrait of Mrs William Morris," drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (England). 1870. "The drawing represents the wife of William Morris, Jane Burden, with whom Rossetti was also in love. The remote, melancholy tenor of the image seems to foreshadow their doomed affair. That Rossetti never sold this sheet attests to its personal significance."

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Which artwork best reflects your mood right now? (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 'Beata Beatrix' c.1864–70) http://ow.ly/O1yFf

British Museum

Dante Gabriel Rossetti died ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1882. Here’s one of his graphite drawings depicting the doomed lovers Paolo and Francesca from Dante's Divine Comedy ow.ly/L88yo