Johnson, Ronald W. “Dante Rossetti’s Beata Beatrix and the New Life,” The Art Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 4 (December 1975): 548-58
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Born: London, 12 May 1828
Died: Birchington on Sea, Kent, 9 April 1882
Nationality: Italian-English
Died: Birchington on Sea, Kent, 9 April 1882
Nationality: Italian-English
Background:
father was Professor of Italian at King’s College School
Studies:
Henry Sass’s private art school (1844; Antique School of the Royal Academy (RA, 1845); with Ford Madox Brown (1848); with William Holman Hunt (1848)
Career:
1848 – founds Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) with John Everett Millais and Hunt
1849 - exhibits Girlhood of Mary Virgin at Free Exhibition (London) with initials PRB
1850 – exhibits Ecce ancilla Domini! (inscribed PRB) at National Institution
1852 – PRB disbands
1855 – begins teaching at Working Men’s College (London)
1856 – befriends William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones
1857 – contributes to Edward Moxon’s illustrated edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Poems along with Millais and Hunt; collaborates with Morris and Burne-Jones on scenes from Malory’s Morte d’Arthur for Oxford Union Debating Society (in situ)
1861 – publication of Rossetti’s The Early Italian Poets, financial support from John Ruskin; joins decorative arts (Arts & Crafts Movement) firm Morris, Marshal, Faulkner & Co.
1870 – Poems published
Travels
Scotland (1853)
Commissions from:
John Ruskin; F. R. Leyland; George Rae, William Graham; C. A. Howell
Important Artworks:
Girlhood of Mary, 1849 (Tate, London)
Ecce ancilla Domini!, 1850 (Tate, London)
Paolo and Francesca, 1855 (Tate, London). From Dante's Divine Commedy.
Dantis Amor, 1860 (Tate, London). From Dante's Divine Commedy.
Joan of Arc, 1864 (Tate, London)
Astarte Syriaca, 1877 (Manchester City Art Gallery, UK)
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