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- Número de inventário
- NG3532
Entretanto, na vida de Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A vida inteira1850s
A new watercolour and pen-and-ink technique
Translations of Italian poetry and Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur” inspired Rossetti’s art of the 1850s: he created a method of painting in watercolours with thick pigments mixed with gum to give rich effects like medieval illuminations, and developed a novel pen-and-ink drawing technique.
c. 1860
A new course: powerful close-ups of women
Around 1860 Rossetti returned to oil painting, abandoning the dense medieval compositions of the 1850s in favour of powerful close-up images of women in flat pictorial spaces of dense colour; these drew not on medievalism but on the Venetian High Renaissance artists Titian and Veronese, and became a major influence on European Symbolism.
23 de maio de 1860
Married: Elizabeth Siddal
1861
Founding partner of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
In 1861 Rossetti, together with Morris, Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Philip Webb, Charles Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall, became a founding partner of the decorative arts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., contributing designs for stained glass and other decorative objects.
May 1861
A stillborn child
In May 1861 Elizabeth gave birth to a stillborn child; her health was finally broken and she began to take laudanum in large quantities.
