Dante Rossetti & Elizabeth Siddal + Dante Alighieri & Beatrice Portinari. Four people who went down in history for their relationships to "the muse."
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Dante Rossetti & Elizabeth Siddal + Dante Alighieri & Beatrice Portinari. Four people who went down in history for their relationships to "the muse."

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“The Oxford Movement intellectuals had little to say about pictorial art per se: their rhetorical efforts were reserved for the defence of the church and its services in toto as forming a kind of romantic Gesamtkunstwerk. If asked what a ‘Tractarian picture’ looked like, many in the 1850s would have pointed to the Pre-Raphaelites, indeed to pictures such as Gabriel [Rossetti]’s The Girlhood of Mary Virgin and Ecce Ancilla Domini!, both featuring Christina [Rossetti]. She herself admired the pictures of Simeon Solomon in which ritual, both Christian and Jewish, is celebrated for its aesthetic appeal. At the Royal Academy in 1864, Rossetti especially picked out Solomon’s A Deacon in which a soft young man performs an ambiguous liturgical ceremony. Unmanliness became a standard charge against the ritualists, but Solomon had no qualms about celebrating the male dressing-up that was one aspect of the Tractarian disturbance of gendered roles. Rossetti, who, it has been argued, found her own gender-based constraints liberated to some extent through her church life, was perhaps drawn to such images partly for this reason.”
—Nicholas Tromans, “Christina Rossetti’s Pictures,” in Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art
O All Ye Winds Of The Gods. By Henry Holiday.
Bookcase, designed by Charles Forster Hayward, with panels painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, executed by Howard & Sons, George E. Magnus and Peard & Jackson, London, 1862–3. Victoria & Albert Museum.

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A Silent Wood
O silent wood, I enter thee
With a heart so full of misery
For all the voices from the trees
And the ferns that cling about my knees.
In thy darkest shadow let me sit
When the grey owls about thee flit;
There will I ask of thee a boon,
That I may not faint or die or swoon.
Gazing through the gloom like one
Whose life and hopes are also done,
Frozen like a thing of stone
I sit in thy shadow – but not alone.
Can God bring back the day when we two stood
Beneath the clinging trees in that dark wood?
- Elizabeth Siddal
I was talking to my dad last night about the Pre Raphaelites. He doesn't know much about them, though, so I was trying to explain the meaning behind the name.
And he just looks at me and goes, "I wonder if there will be Pre Raphaelite tennis fans now that Rafa has retired."