ROSSETTI'S PORTRAITS

Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted some of the 19th century's most striking and spectacular portraits. The most haunting are of the three muses who obsessed his life: Lizzy Siddal, his bride, who died tragically young, Fanny Cornforth, the forthright blonde 'stunner' who was also his mistress and companion, and Jane Burden, the grey-eyed goddess unhappily married to his friend William Morris. Rossetti's luscious paintings of these three women unforgettably fixed the Pre-Raphaelite type, but his many drawings show an unexpected delicacy an...[Llegir més]