Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters

    Prev  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20   Next
Prev artist      Next artist    

   
English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1828-1882 Rossetti's first major paintings display some of the realist qualities of the early Pre-Raphaelite movement. His Girlhood of Mary, Virgin and Ecce Ancilla Domini both portray Mary as an emaciated and repressed teenage girl. His incomplete picture Found was his only major modern-life subject. It depicted a prostitute, lifted up from the street by a country-drover who recognises his old sweetheart. However, Rossetti increasingly preferred symbolic and mythological images to realistic ones. This was also true of his later poetry. Many of the ladies he portrayed have the image of idealized Botticelli's Venus, who was supposed to portray Simonetta Vespucci. Although he won support from the John Ruskin, criticism of his clubs caused him to withdraw from public exhibitions and turn to waterhum, which could be sold privately. In 1861, Rossetti published The Early Italian Poets, a set of English translations of Italian poetry including Dante Alighieri's La Vita Nuova. These, and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, inspired his art in the 1850s. His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired his new friends of this time, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Rossetti also typically wrote sonnets for his pictures, such as "Astarte Syraica". As a designer, he worked with William Morris to produce images for stained glass and other decorative devices. Both these developments were precipitated by events in his private life, in particular by the death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal. She had taken an overdose of laudanum shortly after giving birth to a stillborn child. Rossetti became increasingly depressed, and buried the bulk of his unpublished poems in his wife's grave at Highgate Cemetery, though he would later have them exhumed. He idealised her image as Dante's Beatrice in a number of paintings, such as Beata Beatrix. These paintings were to be a major influence on the development of the European Symbolist movement. In these works, Rossetti's depiction of women became almost obsessively stylised. He tended to portray his new lover Fanny Cornforth as the epitome of physical eroticism, whilst another of his mistresses Jane Burden, the wife of his business partner William Morris, was glamorised as an ethereal goddess.

5 Related Artists to Dante Gabriel Rossetti::.
| Isaac van Ostade | Camillo Procaccini | GIUNTA PISANO | William Meade Prince | Pieter van Gunst |


Dante Gabriel Rossetti Helen of Troy (mk28) oil painting artist


Dante Gabriel Rossetti Helen of Troy (mk28) oil painting artist

Helen of Troy (mk28)
Painting ID::  24430
new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-964539.jpg
 
1863 Oil on panel 31 x 27 cm Hamburger Kunsthalle

Visit European Gallery


Dante Gabriel Rossetti How Sir Galahad,Sir Bors and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanc Grael But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way (mk28) oil painting artist


Dante Gabriel Rossetti How Sir Galahad,Sir Bors and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanc Grael But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way (mk28) oil painting artist

How Sir Galahad,Sir Bors and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanc Grael But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way (mk28)
Painting ID::  24431
new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-969652.jpg
 
1864 Watercolour on paper 29.2 x 41.9 cm Tate Gallery London

Visit European Gallery


Dante Gabriel Rossetti Beata Beatrix (mk28) oil painting artist


Dante Gabriel Rossetti Beata Beatrix (mk28) oil painting artist

Beata Beatrix (mk28)
Painting ID::  24432
new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-663846.jpg
 
1864-70 Oil on canvas 86 x 66 cm Tate Gallery London

Visit European Gallery


Dante Gabriel Rossetti Venus Verticordia (mk28) oil painting artist


Dante Gabriel Rossetti Venus Verticordia (mk28) oil painting artist

Venus Verticordia (mk28)
Painting ID::  24433
new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-374627.jpg
 
1864-8 Oil on canvas 98 x 70 cm Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum Bournemouth

Visit European Gallery


Dante Gabriel Rossetti Study for Venus Verticordia (mk28) oil painting artist


Dante Gabriel Rossetti Study for Venus Verticordia (mk28) oil painting artist

Study for Venus Verticordia (mk28)
Painting ID::  24434
new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-752442.jpg
 
c 1863 Chalk on paper 77.5 x 62 cm Faringdon Collection Trust,Buscot Park Oxfordshire

Visit European Gallery


    Prev  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20   Next
Prev artist      Next artist