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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Parole di Charta) (Italian Edition)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Parole di Charta - Italian Edition Author:Maria Teresa Benedetti As a young man, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was torn between painting and poetry, but after the critic Leigh Hunt advised that if he painted as well as he wrote, he may be a rich man, he chose the former as his profession. The author of this monograph identifies Rossetti as a source of inspiration for European Symbolism; the femmes fatales that domin... more »ate his canvasses have recurred as a theme in many Symbolist paintings. His work has also inspired the second wave of Pre-Raphaelitism, an elegant and calligraphic version associated with his disciple Burne-Jones.« less