The Rossettis: The 'rock 'n' roll' bohemians who shocked Victorian Britain Museum of Fine Arts Boston Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bocca Baciata, 1859 A new exhibition at Tate Britain celebrates the 'strange and extreme' world of the Rossetti family, who challenged conventions in art and life, writes Matthew Wilson. The bohemian spirit of outlandish fashion and excessive behaviour is central to …
The Pre-Raphaelites don’t go away. Those hyper-religious, medievally fixated Victorian death-obsessives may seem perennial candidates for the dustbin of history, but iconic Pre-Raph works such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Beata Beatrix and John Everett Millais’s Ophelia are regularly listed among the nation’s best-loved paintings. Tate Britain’s latest Pre-Raphaelite blockbuster focuses on the illustrious Rossetti family, which produced the movement’s de …
