Victorian-era Romantic painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, shaped by the German Pre-Raphaelites in his youth, founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England with Millais and Hunt. Rossetti rarely realized its doctrine of literally rendering subject matter, almost always including idealization in his works, as in this study for a canvas of the great French heroine.
Joan of Arc, c.1864, Pastel on BoardDante Gabriel Rossetti English (1828 - 1882) |
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Victorian-era Romantic painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, shaped by the German Pre-Raphaelites in his youth, founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England with Millais and Hunt. Rossetti rarely realized its doctrine of literally rendering subject matter, almost always including idealization in his works, as in this study for a canvas of the great French heroine. |
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