Gail-Nina Anderson Artists Series 3 of 3 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, artist and poet

Gail-Nina Anderson Artists Series 3 of 3

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, artist and poet (Lecture given by T. Sturge Moore in 1928)

Dante Gabriel Rosetti | Image source copyright free

Given the difficulty of disengaging the art of painter-poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti from his personal life, it would have been fascinating to have heard another artist-writer, Sturge Moore, discussing him at the Lit & Phil in 1928, the centenary year of Rossetti’s birth. My new lecture looks at Rossetti’s art through the influences that shaped his creative imagination, from Dante to Poe to early Renaissance art to the work of such contemporaries as William Homan Hunt and Ford Madox Brown. Such sources fuelled the evolution of a style that followed a Pre-Raphaelite phase with watercolours resembling Mediaeval illuminations before going on to those yearning, stylised female figures whose strange, strong visual presence was unique in Victorian painting.

A LIVE Lit & Phil Event | £5

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