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This is a list of paintings by the British Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Most painting details are referenced from the Rossetti Archive, [ 1 ] with some additional paintings researched from The Walker Art Gallery.
Self-portrait, 1847 Original manuscript of Autumn Song by Rossetti, 1848, Ashley Library Portrait of Frances Gabriele Rossetti the Artist's Mother (1877). The son of émigré Italian scholar Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti and his wife Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti was born in London, on 12 May 1828.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting of Pandora holding the box, 1871. Two poems in English dealing with Pandora's opening of the box are in the form of monologues, although Frank Sayers preferred the term monodrama for his recitation with lyrical interludes, written in 1790. In this Pandora is descending from Heaven after being endowed with gifts ...
Pandora is a c.1896 painting by John William Waterhouse, now in a private collection. The painting is titled Pandora in honor of Pandora , the first woman according to Greek mythology . [ 1 ] Created by order of Zeus to introduce all evil into the lives of men, after Prometheus , against divine will, gave them the gift of fire.
The painting is a triptych inspired by Canto V of Dante's Inferno, which describes the adulterous love between Paolo Malatesta and his sister-in-law Francesca da Rimini. The left- and right-hand panels both show the lovers together; the central panel shows Dante and the Roman poet Virgil , who guides Dante through hell in the poem.
Proserpine (also Proserpina or Persephone) is an oil painting on canvas by English artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painted in 1874 and now in Tate Britain.Rossetti began work on the painting in 1871 and painted at least eight separate versions, the last only completed in 1882, the year of his death.
Monna Vanna is an 1866 oil on canvas painting (88.9 × 86.4 cm) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.It was acquired by the collector William Henry Blackmore and later entered the collection of George Rae, one of Rossetti's patrons.
Found is an unfinished oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, now in the Delaware Art Museum.The painting is Rossetti's only treatment in oil of a contemporary moral subject, urban prostitution, and although the work remained incomplete at Rossetti's death in 1882, he always considered it one of his most important works, returning to it many times from the mid-1850s until the year before his ...