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Title: DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI


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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
  • THE GIRLHOOD OF MARY VIRGIN

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ROSSETTIS COMMENTSIN A LETTER TO CHARLES LYELL
  • It belongs to the religious class which has
    always appeared to me the most adapted and the
    most worthy to interest the members of a
    Christian community. The subject is the education
    of the Blessed Virgin. In order, therefore, to
    attempt something more probable and at the same
    time less commonplace, I have represented the
    future Mother of Our Lord as occupied in
    embroidering a lily,always under the direction
    of St. Anne the flower she is copying being held
    by two little angels. At a large window in the
    background, her father is seen pruning a vine.
    There are various symbolic accessories which it
    is needless to describe

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ABOUT THE PAINTING
  • ROSSETTI REGARDED THE VIRGIN MARY AS THE HIGHEST
    TYPE OF FEMALE VIRTUE
  • HIS FIRST EXHIBITED PAINTING WAS OF HER AS GIRL
    SEATED WITH HER MOTHER ST. ANNE
  • MARY IS EMBROIDERING A LILY, AND SHE IS TENDED
    BY A CHILD ANGEL
  • THE PAINTING ATTEMPTS TO SHOW THE EDUCATION OF
    MARY

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CHARACTERISTIC OF PRE-RAPHAELITE
PAINTINGNATURALISM
  • LOVE OF NATURAL OBJECTS, ESPECIALLY PLANTS FOR
    THEIR OWN SAKE
  • WEALTH OF DETAIL RICHNESS, FULLNESS AND LOTS OF
    ORNAMENTATION
  • PRETERNATURAL BRILLIANCE - LOVE OF COLOR AND
    LIGHT SHOWN WITH CLARITY AND DELICACY

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NATURALISM
  • MARYS FATHER PRUNING VINES
  • MARY IS EMBRODERING A LILY
  • LILY BEING GROWN IN POT
  • SEVEN-LEAVED PALM ON THE GROUND
  • VERY DETAILED PAINTING LEAVES, BACKGROUND
  • COLOR AND LIGHT APPEAR NATURAL AND DELICATE,
    MAYBE SUNKISSED

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CHARACTERISTIC OF PRE-RAPHAELITE
PAINTINGNATURAL SUPERNATURALISM
  • ATTEMPT TO UNITE THE WORLD OF NATURE WITH THE
    WORLD OF SPIRIT, CONNECT BODY AND SOUL, REAL AND
    IDEAL
  • TENDENCY TOWARD RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM AND SYMBOLIC
    ATMOSPHERES
  • SYMBOLS TEND TO BE MYSETERIOUS AND IMPLY
    ASSOCIATION WITH THE SUPERNATURAL

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SUPERNATURAL SYMBOLS
  • LILY MARYS PURITY
  • VINE CHRISTIAN TRUTH AND SACRIFICE OF CHRISTS
    LIFE
  • ROSE ASSOCIATED WITH VIRGIN
  • PALM PREDICTS FORTHCOMING PASSION OF CHRIST
  • DOVE HOLY SPIRIT

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SUPERNATURAL SYMBOLS
  • RED CLOAK ROBE OF CHRIST
  • LAMP PIETY
  • LATICE CROSS
  • ANGEL GABRIEL WHO ANNOUNCED MARY WOULD BEAR THE
    SON OF GOD
  • BOOKS REPRESENT THE 3 CARDINAL AND THEOLOGICAL
    VIRTURES

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TWO SONNETS
  • This is that blessed Mary, pre-electGod's
    Virgin. Gone is a great while, and sheWas young
    in Nazareth of Galilee.Her kin she cherished
    with devout respectHer gifts were simpleness of
    intellect And supreme patience. From her mother's
    kneeFaithful and hopeful wise in charity
    Strong in grave peace in duty circumspect.So
    held she through her girlhood as it wereAn
    angel-watered lily, that near GodGrows, and is
    quiet. Till one dawn, at home,She woke in her
    white bed, and had no fear At all, - yet wept
    till sunshine, and felt awedBecause the
    fullness of the time was come.
  • These are the symbols. On that cloth of red I'
    the centre, is the Tripoint, - perfect
    eachExcept the second of its points, to teach
    That Christ is not yet born. The books (whose
    headIs golden Charity, as Paul hath said)Those
    virtues are wherein the soul is rich Therefore
    on them the lily standeth, whichIs Innocence,
    being interpreted.The seven-thorned briar and
    the palm seven-leavedAre her great sorrows and
    her great reward.Until the time be full, the
    Holy OneAbides without. She soon shall have
    achievedHer perfect purity yea, God the
    LordShall soon vouchsafe His Son to be her Son.
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