Creator story
Surprising fact
Grief-stricken, Rossetti buried his poems with his wife — then years later had her grave reopened to retrieve the manuscript.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and both a painter and poet. His sensuous portraits of dreamy, red-haired women defined a whole Victorian ideal of beauty.
Rossetti's fusion of poetry and painting and his languid stunners shaped the Aesthetic movement.
- Co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
- Both a major painter and a poet.
- Famed for sensuous portraits of dreamy women.
Key works
A key work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
These works make it easiest to see how the artist changed form, content, and the very way art could exist in culture.
1874
Proserpine
Proserpine is one of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's defining works.