Dante Gabriel
ROSSETTI
(1828-1882)
Rosetti was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In fact, his Girlhood of Mary the Virgin was the first painting to bear the mysterious initials "PRB" after the signature in 1849. It was not until a year later that Rosetti made public the meaning of the initials at which time a firestorm of controversy erupted in which Rosetti and his fellow Pre-Raphaelites were accused of being romanists, blasphemers, atheists, and worse, most notably in a rather shoddy and vicious attack by Dickens on Milais's Christ in the House of his Parents.
Most of his early works featured Elizabeth Siddal (who also
posed for Millais and Hunt) whom he married in 1860. Two years later she died
of an apparently suicidal overdose of laudanum and Rosetti became a virtual
recluse and chloral hydrate addict. He was overcome with grief and guilt over
having not been attentive enough to his wife and at the funeral he placed the
only copy of his complete works of poetry in the coffin with her (in emulation
of a story written by his sister Christina Rosetti some 12 years earlier). After
Elizabeth's death, his principal subject was William Morris's wife Jane whose
full-lipped sultry beauty has become most associated with his name and which
generated significant criticism at the time. In 1870 after much soul-searching
he had the body of of Elizabeth exhumed to retrieve his book of poetry, much
of which was subsequently published. He died 12 years later in 1882 at a resort
near Margate in Kent.
Complete Writings
and Pictures by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Alma-Tadema,
Lawrence
Asoma, Tadashi
Bosch, Hieronymus
Botticelli, Sandro
Boucher, Francois
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward
Cezanne, Paul
Constable, John
Courbet, Gustave
Da Vinci, Leonardo
Dali, Salvador
Degas, Edgar
Delacroix, Eugene
Delaroche, Paul
Dufy, Raoul
Durer, Albrecht
Gauguin, Paul
Goya, Francisco de
Hoitsu, Sakai
Hokusai, Katsushika
Hopper, Edward
Kandinsky, Wassily
Klee, Paul
Klimt, Gustav
Man Ray
Marc, Franz
Matisse, Henri E.
Michelangelo
Modigliani, Amedeo
Mondrian, Piet
Monet, Claude
Motherwell, Robert
Mucha, Alphonse Marie
Munch, Edvard
Pollock, Jackson
Picasso, Pablo
Raphael, Sanzio
Redon, Odilon
Rembrandt Van Rijn
Renoir, Pierre Auguste
Rivera, Diego
Rodin, Auguste
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rothko, Mark
Rubens, Peter Paul
Sargent, John Singer
Schiele, Egon
Seurat, Georges
Van Gogh, Vincent
Velazquez, Diego
Vermeer, Jan
Warhol, Andy
Waterhouse, John William
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
