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Showing posts with label Rossetti. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Rossetti

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24140?docPos=2 - Rossetti

Rossetti was born in London - 12 May 1828

'His admiration for William Blake stemmed from his purchase of a Blake notebook from a British Museum attendant in 1847. - ODB

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/eve_of_stagnes.aspx - eve of St. Agnes by Holman Hunt impresses Rossetti

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-the-girlhood-of-mary-virgin-n04872 - Girlhood of Mary - ' This was Rossetti’s first completed oil painting and the first picture to be exhibited with the initials ‘PRB’, for Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, inscribed on it.'

'Rossetti was the first to sign a work with the initials P.R.B. His Girlhood was sent to the Free Exhibition at Hyde Park in 1849, where the initials were ignored but the painting was a success' - ODB

Rossetti met Elizabeth Sidall in 1850 - ODB

Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/rossetti/works/dante/beatrice.aspx - Lizzie Siddal serves as the model for Beatrice

The Return of Tibullus to Delia - http://www.bmagprints.org.uk/image/331215/dante-gabriel-rossetti-the-return-of-tibullus-to-delia-figure-study

Dante Drawing an Angel - http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/136163/Rossetti

Found

The Annunciation

Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation) (1849-1850) - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-ecce-ancilla-domini-the-annunciation-n01210

'A long friendship between Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones was initiated in 1856 ' - ODB

Bocca Baciata - http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/bocca-baciata-lips-that-have-been-kissed--34360 - Fanny Cornforth is the sitter.

'A setback occurred in April 1861, however, when Elizabeth Siddal gave birth to a stillborn child. The evidence suggests that she suffered from postnatal depression - ODB

'Though Rossetti had a melancholy side, he was also open, warm, and charismatic. With men he seems to have been companionable rather than competitive - ODB

'Rossetti's art work features prominently in many public collections in Britain. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has perhaps the largest collection, but the Tate has a large number of items, as do the British Museum; Manchester City Art Galleries; the Fitzwilliam Museum.. and the Ashmolean Museum. Abroad, the Fogg Art Museum... has a distinguished collection. The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft collection at Wilmington, Delaware, holds many items connected with Rossetti and his life.' - ODB

Tumblr Paintings

'Mother and Child' - Frederic George Stephens - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/stephens-mother-and-child-n04634

Flaming June (ca. 1895) - Frederic, Lord Leighton - http://www.museoarteponce.org/coleccion_gal/encounters-with-europe/2/44/1/1/

The Muse Erato at her Lyre (1895)John William Godward

Sappho (1903) - John William Godward


Fear - Marie Euphrosyne Spartali (later, Marie Spartali Stillman) - Red chalk on paper - c. 1870

Miranda - Thomas Francis Dicksee 

Juliet (1877) - Thomas Francis Dicksee

Portrait of a Lady - Sir Frank Dicksee 

John Singleton CopleyVenus and Cupid, c. 1779

Bartolomeo Manfredi - Allegory of the Four Seasons, 1610. Oil on canvas

William Bouguereau - Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros, 1880. - http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=584

Miranda (1868)  - Sandys 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hamlet and Ophelia - Compositional Study (1865) - http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1904P401/hamlet-and-ophelia-compositional-study/#related

Ophelia (1863-1864) by Arthur Hughes

In Realms of Fancy (1911)  - John William Godward

The Return of Persephone (1891) - Frederic Leighton  - http://www.leedsartgallery.co.uk/gallery/listings/l0033.php

The End of the Quest (1921) - Sir Frank Dicksee

Queen Eleanor 1858 Painting by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys - http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/art/online/?action=show_works&item=685&type=artist


Ophelia, 1861 - Thomas Francis Dicksee

 Miranda - Dicksee 

The Birth of Venus - Cabanel

Pandora, 1873 - Cabanel 





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