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Dante Gabriel Rossetti is the most intriguing and flamboyant figure in nineteenth-century British art. He inspired the first Pre-Raphaelite generation of 1849 and the second generation ten years later and both brought about significant changes in British art. His poetry, too, acted as a stimulus to many writers at the end of the century, who saw in his subtle manipulation of the sonnet and the ballad forms ways of giving expression to issues that were peculiar to the that century.
Dominant among those issues was that of sexual desire, for Rossetti, more than any other artist in this period, struggled with the contradictions of sexuality. When he died in 1882 people knew of him as the painter of alluring women with exotic names - Lilith, Monna Vanna, Fiammetta - and the writer of subtly erotic verse. He projected onto women his anxieties, his pleasures and his needs. He also mythologized them, so that Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth, Jane Morris and others became for him Beatrice, Guenevere, and Isolde. In doing so he shaped them, he changed the direction of their lives, and in some cases he both made and destroyed them.
Source: Rossetti: Painter and Poet
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How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Percival were fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way
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The Girlhood of Mary Virgin
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Ligeia Siren
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Blanzifiore (also known as Snowdrops)
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Self-portrait
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La Pia de' Tolomei
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Beatrice
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Dis Manibus (also known as The Roman Widow)
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La Donna Della Finestra
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Veronica Veronese
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Joan of Arc
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Saint Catherine
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Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah
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Arthur's Tomb
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Beatrice, Meeting Dante at a Wedding Feast, Denies him her Salutation
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How They Met Themselves
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Astarte Syriaca
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The Damsel of the Sanct Grael
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Ellen Smith
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La Bella Mano
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Proserpine
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Marie Stillman
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Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal
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The Annunciation
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Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante
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Regina Cordium, Study
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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Algernon Swinburne
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Monna Rosa
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Girl at Lattice
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King Rene's Honeymoon
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Girl at Lattice
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Found
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Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice
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The Wedding of Saint George and the Princess Sabra
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Carlisle Wall (also known as The Lovers)
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Bottles
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The Beloved (also known as The Bride)
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Hesterna Rosa (also known as Yesterday's Rose)
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