Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (), was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. Rossetti's art was characterised by its
Dante Gabriel Rossetti one of his "Three Songs" (1926), Rossetti's poem "The One Hope" from "Poems" (1870). In 1904 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) created his song cycle "The House of Life" from six poems by Rossetti. One song in that cycle, Silent Noon, is one of Vaughan Williams's best known and most frequently performed songs. In 1904, Phoebe Anna Traquair painted "The Awakening", inspired by a sonnet from Rosetti's "The House of Life". "Rossetti divided his attention between painting and poetry for the rest of his life" - Poetry Foundation Dante Gabriel Rossetti Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April