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Object history: Given by DGR to Jane Morris; May Morris; passing through the hands of Oxford University before reverting in 1962 to the Society of Antiquaries, Kelmscott Manor
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.
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.
The hand and machine work of this design ensured the perpetuation of Rossetti's aesthetic through wider accessibility. Gold stamped 'nailheads' on green cloth. The gold design makes reference to clasps and nailheads on medieval books, and it is repeated on both the cover and back of the book. [ 2 ]
Rossetti was not initially fully satisfied with the painting and he made several revisions to it. [9] He wrote to Morris apologising for copying the feet of another woman into the picture. [ 11 ] An earlier painting of Morris, entitled The Salutation of Beatrice , had similarly used a different model's hands in the final version.
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As he was to do with Beata Beatrix (1870), Rossetti chose a tale by Dante Aligheri (from Purgatorio) to illustrate his love for his model. The story tells of a woman whose husband imprisoned and later poisoned her: [ 1 ] Rossetti wanted the world to believe the fantasy with which he was deluding himself – that William Morris kept Jane against ...
Rossetti and His Circle is a book of twenty-three caricatures by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. Published in 1922 by William Heinemann , the drawings were Beerbohm's humorous imaginings concerning the life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his fellow Pre-Raphaelites , the period, as he put it, "just before oneself."