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Tuesday 29 November 2011

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828 - 1882)

Algernon Swinburne
Bocca Baciata (1859) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/desperateromantics/paintings/bocca_baciata.shtml
Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah (1855) - http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=12805&searchid=9580&tabview=subject
Holy Grail
Il Ramoscello (The Twig) (1865)
Joan of Arc - http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/cockerell/directorcollector/pre-raphaelites.html (Rosetti's last painting) - 'Found on the artist's easel upon his death in 1882, Joan of Arc was acquired by Charles Fairfax Murray.'
La Belle Mano (1875) - http://www.delart.org/collections/preraph/la_bella_mano.html
La Donna della Finestra (1879)
La Ghirlandata
Lady Lilith (1866-68) (altered 1872-73) - http://www.delart.org/collections/preraph/lady_lilith.html
Mary Nazarene - http://beta.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-mary-nazarene-n02860
May Morris
Proserpine -  (Proserpine = Persephone) - http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=12804&tabview=image
Study for the Blessed Damozel
The Beloved
The Bower  Meadow
The Day Dream - http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/forms-of-verse-sonnet/
Water Willow (1871) -http://www.preraph.org/media/audio/56_22/03_Water_Willow.mp3

' Bocca baciata, described by Swinburne as ‘more stunning than can be decently expressed’ (Swinburne Letters, 1.27), marks a turning point in Rossetti's art, heralding the abandonment of his Pre-Raphaelite past.' - ODB - http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.html

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