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Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art
The first art book to explore Rossetti's art and poetry together, including her own artworks, illustrations to her writing, and art inspired by her
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) is among the greatest of English Victorian poets. The intensity of her vision, her colloquial style, and the lyrical quality of her verse still speak powerfully to us today, while her striking imagery has always inspired artists. Rossetti lived in an exceptionally visual her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was the leading member of the avant-garde Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and she became a favorite model for the group. She sat for the face of Christ in William Holman Hunt’s The Light of the World , while both John Everett Millais and Frederick Sandys illustrated her poetry. Later on, the pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and the great Belgian Symbolist Fernand Khnopff were inspired by Rossetti’s enigmatic verses. This engaging book explores the full artistic context of Rossetti’s life and her own complicated attitude to pictures; the many portraits of her by artists, including her brother, John Brett, and Lewis Carroll; her own intriguing and virtually unknown drawings; and the wealth of visual images inspired by her words.
Published in association with Watts Gallery
Exhibition Watts Gallery, Guildford, Surrey
(11/13/18–03/17/19)
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) is among the greatest of English Victorian poets. The intensity of her vision, her colloquial style, and the lyrical quality of her verse still speak powerfully to us today, while her striking imagery has always inspired artists. Rossetti lived in an exceptionally visual her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was the leading member of the avant-garde Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and she became a favorite model for the group. She sat for the face of Christ in William Holman Hunt’s The Light of the World , while both John Everett Millais and Frederick Sandys illustrated her poetry. Later on, the pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and the great Belgian Symbolist Fernand Khnopff were inspired by Rossetti’s enigmatic verses. This engaging book explores the full artistic context of Rossetti’s life and her own complicated attitude to pictures; the many portraits of her by artists, including her brother, John Brett, and Lewis Carroll; her own intriguing and virtually unknown drawings; and the wealth of visual images inspired by her words.
Published in association with Watts Gallery
Exhibition Watts Gallery, Guildford, Surrey
(11/13/18–03/17/19)
- GenresPoetry
192 pages, Hardcover
Published November 13, 2018
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July 4, 2019
Lavishly illustrated, this collection of scholarly essays describe Rossetti’s position in the world of her brothers’ Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; her physical appearance; her own pencil illustrations to her copy of Keble’s “The Christian Year;” the physical appearance of her books and their publishing history; and her influence on later artists ... a magnificent study, long needed ...
December 29, 2018
Beautiful and fascinating.
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