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- catalog abstract ""Growing up in early Victorian London, with a dual Anglo-Italian inheritance, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was determined to be a famous painter, or poet, or both. A key member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at age twenty, he went on to paint world-renowned images of Beatrice, Proserpine, and Astarte, drawn from 'stunners' with soulful eyes and swan-like necks. His poems, like The Blessed Damozel, spoke of unfulfilled love and desire." "His personal life was equally highly coloured. After a long on-off engagement, he married his 'dear dove' Lizzie Siddal, but lost her within two years to a drug overdose. Distraught, he buried the sole manuscript of his poems in her coffin, only to retrieve them for publication seven years later when he fell passionately in love with Janey, wife of his business partner William Morris." "A born leader but moody and quarrelsome, an ambitious painter who refused to exhibit, the contradictory Rossetti suffered a paranoid collapse in his forties, yet recovered to produce his most compelling canvases of darkly brooding femmes fatales."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11584119.
- catalog contributor b11584120.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Growing up in early Victorian London, with a dual Anglo-Italian inheritance, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was determined to be a famous painter, or poet, or both. A key member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at age twenty, he went on to paint world-renowned images of Beatrice, Proserpine, and Astarte, drawn from 'stunners' with soulful eyes and swan-like necks. His poems, like The Blessed Damozel, spoke of unfulfilled love and desire." "His personal life was equally highly coloured. After a long on-off engagement, he married his 'dear dove' Lizzie Siddal, but lost her within two years to a drug overdose. Distraught, he buried the sole manuscript of his poems in her coffin, only to retrieve them for publication seven years later when he fell passionately in love with Janey, wife of his business partner William Morris." "A born leader but moody and quarrelsome, an ambitious painter who refused to exhibit, the contradictory Rossetti suffered a paranoid collapse in his forties, yet recovered to produce his most compelling canvases of darkly brooding femmes fatales."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [559]-573) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 592 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0297817035".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "759.2 21".
- catalog subject "ND497.R8".
- catalog subject "Painters England Biography.".
- catalog subject "Poets, English 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Pre-Raphaelites England Biography.".
- catalog subject "Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.".
- catalog title "Dante Gabriel Rossetti : painter and poet / Jan Marsh.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".