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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.
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.
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 ...
She was a model and muse to her husband William Morris and to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. [1] ... Aberdeen Art Gallery. Pandora, 1869. Pandora, 1871.
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Dante's Dream (full title Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice) is a painting from 1871 by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It hangs in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. He repeated a composition he had done in watercolour and gouache at a smaller scale in 1856. This is now in Tate Britain, measuring 48. ...
Rossetti was commissioned by William Graham to paint for him a version of Beata Beatrix, which Rossetti at first resisted.After stopping and starting the work, he grew to enjoy revisiting the theme, and altered the suffusion of light from the original, increasing background definition, and perhaps the idealization of the subject. [6]