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Victorian Art in Britain |
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The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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in 1879, three years before the painters death. Rossetti
was both painter & poet, & this picture illustrates the
poem of the same name, which had in fact been written many years before.
By this time Rossetti had left his Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood phase many
years before, & concentrated on painting symbolist paintings,
usually of lone women, in constricting, claustrophobic, surroundings.
Unusually the model was not Jane Morris, but Alexa Wilding. |
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Location : Lady Lever Gallery, Port SUnlight |
