Proserpine
Proserpine c1882 (v8) leis a’ pheantair Eadailteach Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882); a bha cuideachd na dhealbhadair, bàrd agus eadar-theangair.
This is a beautiful portrait of Proserpine the daughter of Zeus and ban-dia of agriculture, as well as the wife of Hades, King of the underworld.
Proserpine is wearing a green gown that is flowing over a table that she is standing by, that has an incense burner with burning incense.
She is holding in her left hand a pomegranate that has been sliced open and is a reddish orange color that matches the color of her hair.
Behind her we can see a large vine that is illuminated with light streaming in from a far distance; creating the appearance that she is in some sought of enclosure.
Lastly in the upper right hand corner of the portrait is a four verse poem.
Is e seo ath-riochdachadh seann mhaighstirean ealain didseatach ath-riochdachadh de ìomhaigh raon poblach.
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Rugadh Dante Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti agus b’ e mac an sgoilear Eadailteach a bha às-imrich Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti agus Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori.
Bha triùir pheathraichean aig Dante a bha nam bàrd Cairistìona Rossetti, neach-breithneachaidh Uilleam Mìcheal Rossetti, agus an t-ùghdar Maria Francesca Rossetti.
Nuair a bha e na leanabh fhuair Dante foghlam aig an taigh agus nuair a dh’ fhàs e sean gu leòr chaidh e an uair sin gu Sgoil Colaiste an Rìgh faisg air an Strand ann an Lunnainn..
Ged a bha e ag amas air a bhith na bhàrd rè na bliadhnaichean colaiste aige; bha e cuideachd airson a bhith na pheantair, a’ nochdadh ùidh mhòr ann an Ealain Eadailteach meadhan-aoiseil.
Bho 1841 gu 1845 bha e na oileanach aig an Henry Sass Drawing Academy; bha e cuideachd clàraichte ann an Sgoil Àrsaidh an Acadamaidh Rìoghail gus 1848.
Às deidh dha an Acadamaidh Rìoghail fhàgail bha e na oileanach fon Pheantair Breatannach Ford Madox Brown (1821 – 1893).
Beagan ceangail às dèidh sin choinnicheadh e ri Uilleam Holman Hunt (1827 – 1910), às deidh an taisbeanadh aige den dealbh The Eve of St.Agnes, a sheall dàn leis a’ Bhàrd Breatannach Iain Keats (1795 – 1821).
Gu math coltach ris an dealbh aig Rossetti The Blessed Damozel bha e na aithris air Keats; a’ creidsinn gum faodadh Hunt cuid de na beachdan ealanta is litreachais aige a cho-roinn.
Còmhla bhiodh Rossetti agus Hunt a’ leasachadh feallsanachd na Bràithreachas Ro-Raphaelite a stèidhich iad còmhla ri John Everett Millais.