108 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, ca

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TitleThe Blessed Damozel

Creator nameRossetti, Dante Gabriel

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1871–1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/299805

Accession number1943.202

SubjectsPainting, British--19th centuryPre-RaphaelitesPoetry and the artsAesthetic movement (Art)

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Chapter 7: Rossetti and the Fleshly School

Elizabeth Prettejohn

Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting

Rossetti’s most obvious distinction – that he was both a painter and a poet – also proves to be the most persistent critical problem in discussion of his work in either medium. At an extreme it becomes a gauge of his failure in both: he is too ‘literary’ a painter, or too ‘pictorial’ a poet; or his attempt to unite the two arts only hastens their division in...

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Elizabeth Prettejohn

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.201-231

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Chapter subject tags:Aesthetic movement (Art)Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882Pre-RaphaelitesArt for art's sake (Movement)Painting, British--19th centuryPainting, Victorian--Great BritainMorris, William, 1834-1896Morris, Jane, 1839-1914

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