Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
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Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti 🇬🇧

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Known as "Dante Gabriel Rossetti")
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Born May 12, 1828 🇬🇧 London, Kingdom of Great Britain
Passed Away Apr 09, 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Lifespan 53 years old
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"I believe in the passion of beauty; it is the physical manifestation of the divine soul."

Archival Overview

Founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, poet, and painter whose haunting portraits of Elizabeth Siddal and Jane Morris ('Proserpine', 'Beata Beatrix') launched the Aesthetic movement.

Biographical Record

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882 CE), son of an exiled Italian scholar, co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, demanding a return to the detail and intense color of art before Raphael.

Both a major English poet and painter, his tragic love for his wife Elizabeth Siddal inspired the masterpiece Beata Beatrix; his depictions of Jane Morris as Proserpine created the visual ideal of Aestheticism.

Key Life Milestones

1848

Founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB)

Formed the revolutionary 7-member brotherhood in London, signing paintings with the mysterious initials 'PRB'.

1874

Proserpine Completed

Completed the iconic oil portrait of Jane Morris holding the split pomegranate in the underworld, now in the Tate Britain.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
All Saints' Churchyard
Birchington-on-Sea, United Kingdom
GPS: 51.3789, 1.3067
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