BITE ME.

NIC. CAPRICORN. TINY BUT FULL OF RAGE.

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Animation by Edward Gorey for the opening credits of the PBS series “Mystery!”

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Venus disarming Cupid (details) by François Boucher, c. 1703-1770.

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Flowers Still Life, 1762, by Cornelia van der Mijn (1709- c. 1772)

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Lia Pavlova 

Numéro China (October 2015) 

ph. Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello

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Wang Yibo x Marie Claire

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Wunderkind fall 2010.

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William Etty, Sabrina & her Nymphs, 1841.

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Joyce Carol Oates, The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

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Louise Glück, from “Unpainted Door”, Poems 1962-2012

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Sora Choi at Dsquared² fall 2017 rtw

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Details from Sacha Goldenberg’s “Flemish Painting” series. 

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Long and awkward

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BCyj4WBB7NQ/

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St. Joan of Arc (detail, 1909) Paul Antoine de la Boulaye

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Venus Verticordia, 1863-1868, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

detail of watercolour and bodycolour study & oil on canvas painting

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

British poet, illustrator and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born on this day in 1828 in London. Rossetti was the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, alongside William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.

Rossetti’s romantic medievalism inspired a second generation of Pre-Raphaelite painters, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Alongside his art, he was also known to write sonnets to accompany his pictures, and create art to illustrate the poems and literature that inspired him.

Rossetti’s personal life was closely linked to his work, in particular his relationship with his model and muse Jane Morris pictured in two of these portraits from our collection.

The Day Dream. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882. Pastel and black chalk.

Perlascura (Jane Morris). Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1871. Red and brown chalk heightened with white on pale green paper.

Head of a Woman (attendant for ‘Astarte Syriaca’). Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1875. Coloured chalk heightened with white on pale green paper.