Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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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. Download Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Jan Marsh – kino-fada.fr This is indisputably the definitive work on DGR It is one of those rare biographies that manages to be engrossing and entertaining at the same time as being informative and well researched I have returned t...Everything you ever wanted to know about Dante Gabriel Rossetti, andThis was a brick of a book and it has taken me months to get through it, but thankfully I have made it to the end.Very informative, but I m still enjoying reading about the Brotherhood so I need to find the next one.A great book Every Pre Raphaelite scholar, or fan, should read this either for pleasure or for interest.More thoughts can be found hereBalanced, detailed biography More illustrations and some in colour would have been nice.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • English
  • 10 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 603 pages
  • 0297817035
  • Jan Marsh
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti