It was here that he found a love of literature. Rossetti initially studied at home but later attended King’s College School on the Strand. His siblings included the poet Christina Rossetti, the art and literary critic William Michael Rossetti, and the author Maria Francesca Rossetti. It was a genuinely prolific creative family. Rossetti was the son of two émigré Italian parents (Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori). More commonly known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, he was a leading English painter, poet, illustrator, and translator.ĭante Gabriel Rossetti paintings wonderfully capture the richness of the Victorian period.Īlongside John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti was born in London on May 12th, 1828.
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