Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: Music

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Doppelgänger theme shown in “How They Met Themselves,” oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Christina Rossetti, chalk drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866; in a private collection

Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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Also Known As	Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Born	May 12, 1828 • London • England
Died	April 9, 1882 (aged 53) • England
Notable Works	“Poems” • “The Blessed Damozel” • “The House of Life”
Movement / Style	Aestheticism • Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood • fleshly school of poetry

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: Music

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: Beata Beatrix

Doppelgänger theme shown in “How They Met Themselves,” oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Christina Rossetti, chalk drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866; in a private collection

Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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