Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the old masters.(Critical essay)

From: Yearbook of English Studies | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Ormond, Leonee | Copyright information

Dante Gabriel Rossetti played a major role in forming Victorian patterns of taste. As a young painter, he rejected the conventional path by turning from the techniques of post-Raphaelite artists towards the style of the Italian and Flemish early Renaissance. A number of Rossetti's sonnets are dedicated to old master paintings and his work as an artist reflects various influences at different times in his career. In the 1860s he began to emulate Titian and the Venetian school, and a...

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