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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Paintings

Dante Gabriel Rosetti was an important British painter and poet of Symbolism who founded the artist group of the Pre-Raphaelites together with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.
Born: 12 May 1828 in London
Died: 09 April 1882 in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent
As the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti breaks up his training at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Academy after just a short time, and therefore lacks education, he is still considered an autodidact. For a long period, he is not sure whether he should earn his money as a poet or as a painter. It is only when he meets William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais that Dante Gabriel Rossetti decides to paint. The three men found the brotherhood of the Pre-Raphaelites, as they all have similar bad experiences with the prevailing academic ideals, which are derived from nature and the study of previous generations of Italian masters. Molded by the mystical texts of William Blake, Rossetti finds his own symbolic-decorative style. His paintings are dominated by strong local colors and pronounced lines. This idiosyncratic style serves as a model for the following Art Nouveau painters. In 1849, the artist meets his future wife and muse Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, whom he portrays in many pictures. Just as Rossetti’s first name is Dante, Elizabeth becomes his “Beatrice”. The famous painting “Beata Beatrix” that depicts an enchanted woman, in whose hands a red bird lays a poppy-flower, is a symbolic allusion to Elizabeth's suicide in 1862.