The Eclectic Light CompanyThe Other Half: Painters and their models 2
TottsVenus Verticordia (1868) by Dante Gabriel #Rossetti showing the goddess Aphrodite surrounded by red roses
The Annunciation re-imagined 1850-1923
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/21/the-annunciation-re-imagined-1850-1923/
Tales from the Penny BloodsBelated Happy Returns to Cristina Rossetti, whose birthday it was on the 5th of this month!
Check out our short podcasts on our Youtube channel about Rossetti, and her poem 'Goblin Market':
Cristina and Carroll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcEiqNxmvSU
The Goblin Market:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj_VMAfyEjY
#victorian #victorianliterature #audiodrama #podcast #entertainment #adaptation #victorianpoetry #rossetti #christinarossetti #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
The Victorian WebDid you know #Rossetti also designed book covers? Simon Cooke discusses a variety of examples—here's his striking design for his brother's 1865 translation of Dante, suitably cosmic and iconographic https://victorianweb.org/art/design/books/cooke2.html #art #design #books
Medium and Message: Varnish and the mists of grime
Art triptychsDante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882)
Proserpine
1874
Oil on canvas (125,1 x 61 cm)
Tate
Although Rossetti inscribed the date 1874 on the picture, he worked for seven years on eight separate canvases before he finished with it. His Proserpine, like his model Jane Morris, is an exquisitely beautiful woman, with delicate facial features, slender hands, and flawlessly pale skin set off by her thick raven hair. Rossetti painted it at a time when his mental health was extremely precarious and his love for Jane Morris was at its most obsessive.
Unable to decide as a young man whether to concentrate on painting or poetry, his work is infused with his poetic imagination and an individual interpretation of literary sources. His accompanying sonnet to this work is a poem of longing: "And still some heart unto some soul doth pine," carrying an inescapable allusion to his yearning to seduce Jane from her unhappy marriage with William Morris. Proserpine had been imprisoned in Pluto's underground realm for tasting the forbidden pomegranate. Jane, trapped by convention, was also tasting forbidden fruit. There is a deeper meaning in the painting as Rossetti stayed with Jane at Kelmscott Manor during the summer months each year and in winter she returned to stay with William Morris, thus paralleling Proserpine's freedom during summer.
In Roman mythology, Proserpine, daughter of Jupiter and Ceres, was carried off to the Underworld (Hades) by Pluto, who married her despite her love for Adonis. When Ceres begged Jupiter to return her daughter to Earth, he agreed, on condition that Proserpine had not eaten any fruits in Hades. As Proserpine had eaten six pomegranate seeds, it was decreed that she should remain in Hades for six months of the year and be allowed on Earth for the other six.
#Rossetti #Proserpine #Pre-Raphaelites #art
Proserpine
1874
Oil on canvas (125,1 x 61 cm)
Tate
Although Rossetti inscribed the date 1874 on the picture, he worked for seven years on eight separate canvases before he finished with it. His Proserpine, like his model Jane Morris, is an exquisitely beautiful woman, with delicate facial features, slender hands, and flawlessly pale skin set off by her thick raven hair. Rossetti painted it at a time when his mental health was extremely precarious and his love for Jane Morris was at its most obsessive.
Unable to decide as a young man whether to concentrate on painting or poetry, his work is infused with his poetic imagination and an individual interpretation of literary sources. His accompanying sonnet to this work is a poem of longing: "And still some heart unto some soul doth pine," carrying an inescapable allusion to his yearning to seduce Jane from her unhappy marriage with William Morris. Proserpine had been imprisoned in Pluto's underground realm for tasting the forbidden pomegranate. Jane, trapped by convention, was also tasting forbidden fruit. There is a deeper meaning in the painting as Rossetti stayed with Jane at Kelmscott Manor during the summer months each year and in winter she returned to stay with William Morris, thus paralleling Proserpine's freedom during summer.
In Roman mythology, Proserpine, daughter of Jupiter and Ceres, was carried off to the Underworld (Hades) by Pluto, who married her despite her love for Adonis. When Ceres begged Jupiter to return her daughter to Earth, he agreed, on condition that Proserpine had not eaten any fruits in Hades. As Proserpine had eaten six pomegranate seeds, it was decreed that she should remain in Hades for six months of the year and be allowed on Earth for the other six.
#Rossetti #Proserpine #Pre-Raphaelites #art
Plastyczny OnlineDante Gabriel Rossetti i... wombaty?! Artysta prerafaelita miał niezwykłą słabość do tych australijskich torbaczy – jednego prowadzał na smyczy po Londynie, innego uwiecznił w rysunku z zaskakującym „pomnikiem”. Poznaj tę niezwykłą historię z okazji rocznicy jego śmierci. 🖋️🦔
#Rossetti #ciekawostkiSztuki
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Gianluca Di Marzio 🤖. @[email protected], arriva l’acquisto in attacco: ecco Mattia #Rossetti dal @[email protected] https://lacasadic.com/news-serie-c/s…
#SerieC | #Sorrento chiuso per #Rossetti del #Potenza, #AudaceCerignola continua a trattare per Sonny D'Angelo e ha sondato anche Fofana della #Triestina
