British Artist Dante Gabriel Rosset... Jul 16, 2008
British Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Painter and Poet ... Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Painter and Poet ... Founder of The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artistic movement, Rossetti's painting and poetry create a sensuously ethereal world. (Suite101.com)
The Light fantastic Dec 27, 2007
The Light was the most popular product of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a movement founded by Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and several others. They wanted to reform art by rejecting the mechanistic approach of the Mannerists -- successors to Raphael. (National Post)
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Jul 13, 2007
origins of an influential group of English 19th century artists. In 1811 an earnest group of young German painters of deep religious conviction settled in Rome. (Suite101.com)
Juicy fruit and other pleasures at Goblin Market May 22, 2007
Rossetti (1830-1894), associated with the influential Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was so deeply religious that Anglican Christianity was the guiding principal of her life. She turned down two offers of marriage because one man had converted to Catholicism and the other she considered too pagan. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
A rare rosebud ready to bloom? Mar 28, 2007
6-million his St. Cecilia sold for remains the highest value ever achieved at auction by an artist associated with the famous Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) Waterhouse was a latter-day member surpassing even what more famous PRB artists (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, William Holman Hunt) have earned. Prominent PRB collectors include Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rod Stewart, but Americans are the next most assiduous collectors, according to Sotheby's. (Globe and Mail)
The art of a woman’s death and dying Mar 14, 2007
In Victorian England, death for these women was the inevitable outcome depicted in the artwork of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. The only thing they could do was die, said Winona State University art professor Acacia Warwick. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Women of substance: cabdriver, muse, and jewel thief Mar 11, 2007
Movies Restaurants Food Calendar Music Theater/Arts TV Books Celebrity news Games. Sister MineBy Tawni O DellShaye Areheart, 405 pp. (Boston Globe)
