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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828-1882
Rossetti, English painter, poet and translator, co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) in 1848, striving for simplistic, realistic and detailed representations of nature. Discouraged by appalling reviews of one of his first oil paintings, Rossetti stopped exhibiting in public. However his work was championed by John Ruskin, which turned the young artist's reputation around. The PRB dissolved in 1852, but four years later he initiated a second phase of the movement, with the focus being on legendary past.
In the 1850s he met Elizabeth Siddal who became his model, lover and in 1860 his wife. The brief marriage ended tragically when she took an overdose of laudanum. Her death provoked another change in his art, with sensuous portrayals of women painted in luxurious oils replacing literary themes as the focus of his work. |
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