Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (eng. Dante Gabriel Rossetti; May 12, 1828 - April 9, 1882) - English poet, translator, illustrator and artist. One of the largest pre-Raphaelites. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born into a petty-bourgeois intellectual family. His father, Gabriel Rossetti, a carbonarius who fled from Italy in 1821, became a professor of Italian at Kings College, and his mother was Francis Polidori. In 1850, Rossetti published his first poem, The Blessed Virgin, inspired by The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. Most of Rossetti's other poems date from the 1860s and 1870s; they were published under the general title Ballads and sonnets in 1881. Gabriel's sister, Christina Rossetti, was also a famous poetess. In 1848, at an exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Rossetti met William Holman Hunt, Hunt helped Rossetti finish the painting "Childhood of the Virgin Mary", which was exhibited in 1849, and he also introduced Rossetti to J.E. Millet. Together they found the Brotherhood of the Pre-Raphaelites. Hunt, Millet, and Rossetti deliberately challenged conventional wisdom; they created their manifesto and published it in their own publication, Rostock. Subsequently, Rossetti departs from Pre-Raphaelitism. From 1854 to 1862, he also taught drawing and painting at the first educational institution in England for the lower classes of society. At the same time, he turned out to be an excellent teacher, and students idolized him.