poets ranked by beard weight May 9, 2009
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 1882)Beard type: Italian False GoateeTypical opus: The Blessed DamozelGravity (UPI rating): 38. Edwin Markham (1852 1940)Beard type: BoxTypical opus: The Man With the HoeGravity (UPI rating): 39. (Harper's Magazine)
Valentine's Day Museum Exhibitions Feb 4, 2008
Represented in the exhibition are Raphael (1483-1520), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Yoko Ono (b. 1933), David Hockney (b. (Suite101.com)
Row house was art house Jan 30, 2008
Hanging in Ms. Preston's kitchen was a 19th-century watercolour by pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and in the sitting room, above an electric fire, a work by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Those two, estimated to be worth $2-million, have been saved for Britain and are expected to go on display at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, Mr. Schwinge said. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Masterpieces found in dead curators home Jan 30, 2008
Prestons collection included two valuable pre-Raphaelite pieces: an 1866 watercolor of Hamlet and Ophelia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that was found in the kitchen and an oil painting titled Music by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, found hanging above Prestons electric fireplace. Preston inherited much of her art from her father, a collector who bought the two Fra Angelicos in the 1960s. (MSNBC -- News)
Oxford pensioner's paintings worth 2.7m Jan 29, 2008
"A rare edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, worth nearly 100,000, was found in her wardrobe.Two pre-Raphaelite masterpieces worth more than 1 million were also discovered - a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the kitchen and a work by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones in her sitting room. The paintings were found in Jean Preston's home in OxfordThe works have been transferred to the nation under a Government scheme in which estates can offer important works of art to settle inheritance... (Telegraph.co.uk)
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)
True stories Oct 27, 2007
Think of the allusions to Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Shakespeare or Keats that illuminate an imaginative life beyond what her mother prescribed. The Germans have a word for this kind of narrative: the K. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Roberto Cavalli's Belle Époque and Antonio Marras's Art Nouveau Sep 27, 2007
"Romantic," said Marras backstage, adding that Bill Viola's shadow-and-light video art was an inspiration, as were pre-Raphaelite artists like Millais, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The result was a show that steered a course between historicism and modernity, tucking flat pleats across the body and creating dresses that went from fitted to square cut. (International Herald Tribune)
The way of the Waughs Jun 11, 2007
After a few years Evelyn took himself in hand, publishing in 1927 an excellent monograph on the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, then following it the next year with his brilliant first novel, "Decline and Fall," an eminently rereadable comic masterpiece. From there on his career as a writer never faltered, and after an unfortunate but brief marriage to Evelyn Gardner (known as "she-Evelyn"), he married Laura Herbert, with whom he had six children. (Boston Globe)
Tate to rescue reputation of Millais May 16, 2007
It nearly killed his model, Lizzie Siddal, later the wife of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who caught pneumonia lying for hours in a cooling bath: her outraged father insisted that Millais pay her medical bills. The exhibition will tour Japan, where the painting is revered but will certainly not appear on the posters: recently posters of Ophelia were taken down from Tokyo tube stations in case they encouraged teenage Japanese girls to a wet and flowery death. (Guardian Unlimited)
The real stars of these books Mar 29, 2007
Historical figures: Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and craftsman William Morris. Plot: Jane Burden, model for and lover of Rossetti, marries the artist's prot. (USA Today -- Life)
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 elusive Symbolist movement Mar 17, 2007
Just as Baudelaire was recognized as the forerunner of literary Symbolism, it is now widely acknowledged that Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne- Jones and George Frederick Watts were precursors of artistic Symbolism. An exhibition at the Tate Gallery devoted to the three a decade ago was subtitled "Symbolism in Britain 1860-1910." The notion that these English painters could be considered Symbolist was a somewhat novel concept to many, and not only in Britain. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
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)
Closure threat to Morris museum Jan 28, 2007
Treasures from the Arts and Crafts movement worth millions of pounds, including Morris's original sketches for the acanthus-leaf wallpaper, a design classic, and his woodpecker tapestry, will be lost to the public and potentially put up for sale, along with bronzes by Auguste Rodin and work by pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Waltham Forest borough council, in east London, has cut back the opening hours of the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow to save money,... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
30,000 for Sheffield supermodel portraitA TINY drawing of a tragic Victorian supermodel whose family came from Sheffield could fetch up to 30,000 when it goes up for auction next month. Jan 27, 2007
The portrait in pencil, pen and brown ink is of Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Siddal, and was drawn by her lover, the famous Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Lizzie, whose parents came from Sheffield and who lived in the city briefly herself in the 1850s, had drug problems and committed suicide aged 32. (Sheffield Today, UK)
