Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter And Poet
Born in London in 1828, of British and Italian parentage, DGR became a pupil of Ford Madox Brown and later formed the PRB to effect a revolution in English painting and poetry. His work in both forms was detailed, symbolic, mystical, and sometimes erotic. He was involved with two of the PRB `stunners', first Lizzie Siddal who died of a laudanum overdose, then Jane Morris. Notoriously, DGR buried his poetry manuscripts with Siddal, but later exhumed them. Latterly involved with William Morris's decorative arts firm, DRG died — a near recluse — in 1882, a Romantic Victorian revolutionary.
- Author
- Jan Marsh
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 603
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780297817031
- Genres
- art, biography, victorian, poetry
- Release date
- 1999
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