Dante Gabriel Rossetti Heaven. Around 1860, Rossetti returned to oil painting, abandoning the dense medieval compositions of the 1850s in favour of powerful close-up images of women in flat pictorial spaces characterised by dense colour. These paintings became a major influence on the development of the European Symbolist movement. In them, Rossetti's depiction of women became almost obsessively stylised. He portrayed his new lover Fanny Cornforth as the epitome of physical eroticism, whilst Jane Burden, the wife of his business partner William Morris, was glamorised as an ethereal goddess. "As in Rossetti's previous reforms, the new kind of subject appeared in the context
The Mystery of Dante The Mystery of Dante The Mystery of Dante () is a 2014 Italian independent film written and directed by Louis Nero that explores "The Divine Comedy" though a documentary-style look at the life and philosophy of Dante Alighieri. The film was shot in the basement of the Macello's Castle and in Turin. The film includes cultural references from Shakespeare, the Sufis (all of Ibn Arabi), and including Luigi Valli, Gabriele Rossetti, René Guénon, Miguel Asín Palacios, and also religious origins of literature, reaching from Muslim, Jewish, and Indian traditions back to the Epic of Gilgamesh. Inspired by the work of