Rossetti
Rossetti is a surname associated with a family of Victorian-era artists and writers.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a poet and painter who cofounded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
His sister Christina Rossetti wrote devotional poetry, including "Goblin Market." The name appears in art history and literary contexts: a Rossetti painting, reading Christina Rossetti's sonnets.
Victorian artists emulating earlier masters
- OpheliaGreek name meaning help
- medievalismStudy of Middle Ages
- stunnerPerson or thing overwhelming
- femme fataleTreacherous enchantress
easel · oil painting · watercolor · illustration · portrait · symbolism
Female verse writer
- devotionalRelating to worship
- religious verseSacred metrical composition
- AnglicanChurch of England member
- spinsterUnmarried older woman
nursery rhymes · feminist · renunciation · piety · melancholy · mortality · sisterhood · hymnist
Metered poetic passage
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- balladNarrative poem or song
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
Victorian poetry · literary · anthology · exhumation · manuscript · meter · lyric · romantic
Italian given name
- LondonEngland's capital city
- siblingsFellow offspring
- émigréOne who left home
- biographerOne who writes lives
memoir · correspondence · Victorian era · bohemian · intelligentsia
Pre-Raphaelite
Victorian artists emulating earlier masters
- OpheliaGreek name meaning help
- medievalismStudy of Middle Ages
- stunnerPerson or thing overwhelming
femme fatale · easel · oil painting · watercolor · illustration · portrait · symbolism
poetess
Female verse writer
- devotionalRelating to worship
- religious verseSacred metrical composition
- AnglicanChurch of England member
spinster · nursery rhymes · feminist · renunciation · piety · melancholy · mortality · sisterhood · hymnist · Oxford Movement
verse
Metered poetic passage
rhyme · Victorian poetry · literary · anthology · exhumation · manuscript · meter · lyric · romantic · imagery
Gabriele
Italian given name
biographer · memoir · correspondence · Victorian era · bohemian · intelligentsia
- British ArtBritish painters, Tate, David Hockney, Tate Gallery, Francis Bacon
- SonneteersShakespeare, Petrarch, Sidney, Spenser, Milton
- Victorian AuthorsDickens, Eliot, Hardy, Thackeray, Collins
- Victorian PoetsAlfred Tennyson, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Browning, Arnold
- Evelyn WaughHelena
- Pre-Raphaelitesbrotherhood, Ophelia, Waterhouse, William Morris, Morris
RossettiÉmile Zola
William Morris · Marcel Duchamp · Kazimir Malevich · Ashcan School · Bauhaus