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Pre-Raphaelite Artist Cited Diarrhea As Excuse for Painting Delay
We’ve all been there.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Letters Between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His Model Fanny Cornforth Are Now Online
The Delaware Art Museum has digitized correspondence between the Pre-Raphaelite painter and his overlooked muse.
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Memorializing the Forgotten Grave of a Pre-Raphaelite Muse
Fanny Cornforth has one of the most recognizable faces of Pre-Raphaelite art, yet after dying at an asylum in obscurity, she rests in an unmarked grave.
Art
The Curious Fates of Famous Artists’ Pets
There’s a whole history of woe for the pets of famous artists, especially when the creative types decided no ordinary cat or dog would do.
Art
Staring Back: 400 Years of Portraits at the Morgan
Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso at the Morgan Library & Museum may not venture very far beyond canonical European artists, but it uncovers richness and diversity within a circumscribed field, especially in the work of its two anchors, Albrecht Dürer and Pablo Picasso.
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Conservators Uncover Collaborative Pre-Raphaelite Mural
Conservators have discovered an entire wall painting done by five Pre-Raphaelite artists in a house in a London suburb. The building, known as the Red House, was the home of Arts and Crafts movement founder William Morris between 1860 and 1865; sometime during those years, Morris completed the paint