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- Title
"Sisters in Art: Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal in Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante (1852)".
- Authors
Martinez, Michele
- Abstract
I Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante i presents a new poetic persona for the young poet-artists Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal, who might at first appear to be tangential to the scene of male artists bonding. Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal emerged as public figures within the familial and fraternal milieu of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, whose foundational member Dante Gabriel Rossetti (DGR hereafter) was instrumental in helping the two women develop poetess personae unique from their contemporaries. When christina Rossetti, at age seventeen, made her authorial debut in I Verses i (1847), the word I poetess i must have resounded in her ears.[1] For female poets in the 1840s, the figure of classical Sappho loomed large as a paradigmatic antecedent: even Elizabeth Barrett Browning quipped privately to a friend: "I am "little and black" like Sappho en attendant the immortality."[2] As an author with transatlantic fame, Barrett Browning was redefining and updating the poetess figure that appeared in the pages of illustrated annuals and anthologies.
- Subjects
ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894; PORTRAIT painting; LOVE of God; WOMEN authors
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2022, Vol 48, Issue 2, p170
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2022.a900616