Proserpine
Proserpine c1882 (v8) by Italian Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882); som også var illustrator, digter og oversætter.
Dette er et smukt portræt af Proserpine, datter af Zeus og gudinde af landbruget, samt Hades hustru, Konge af underverdenen.
Proserpine er iført en grøn kjole, der flyder over et bord, som hun står ved, der har en røgelsesbrænder med brændende røgelse.
Hun holder i sin venstre hånd et granatæble, der er skåret op og har en rødlig orange farve, der matcher hårets farve.
Bag hende kan vi se en stor vinstok, der er oplyst med lys, der strømmer ind på lang afstand; skaber det udseende, at hun er i nogle søgt af kabinet.
Endelig i portrætets øverste højre hjørne er et digt med fire vers.
Dette er en retoucheret digital kunst, som gamle mestre gengiver et billede af det offentlige domæne.
Info herunder stammer fra Wikipedia.org
Dante blev født Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti og var søn af den italienske emigrer Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti og Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori.
Dante havde tre søskende, der var digteren Christina Rossetti, kritiker William Michael Rossetti, and author Maria Francesca Rossetti.
As a child Dante was home schooled and when he became old enough he then attended King’s College School near the Strand in London.
Though during his college years he aspired to be a poet; he also wanted to be a painter, demonstrating great interest in Medieval Italian Art.
Fra 1841 til 1845 he studied at the Henry Sass Drawing Academy; he was also enrolled in the Antique School of the Royal Academy until 1848.
After leaving the Royal Academy he studied under British Painter Ford Madox Brown (1821 – 1893).
Some tie later he would meet William Holman Hunt (1827 – 1910), after his exhibition of the painting The Eve of St.Agnes, which illustrated a poem by British Poet John Keats (1795 – 1821).
Much the same as Rossetti’s painting The Blessed Damozel was an imitation of Keats; believing that Hunt might share some of his artistic and literary ideals.
Together Rossetti and Hunt would develop the philosophy of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which they founded along with John Everett Millais.