. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . flDi06 Si^^aL 91 On the frame of the picture are the words from Jere-miah uttered by Dante when Beatrices death had despoiled the city of all dignity : Qjiomodo sedetsold civitas. To have indulged in any exuberanceof sentiment concerning a work in which he hadpreserved the most profound associations of his lifewould not have been Rossetti ; but the flawlesscharm of the upturned face, surrounded by its gloryof red-gold hair, speaks much more eloquently thanwords of the mood of the painter toward his CHAPTER MIDDLE YEARS. UP to the
. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . flDi06 Si^^aL 91 On the frame of the picture are the words from Jere-miah uttered by Dante when Beatrices death had despoiled the city of all dignity : Qjiomodo sedetsold civitas. To have indulged in any exuberanceof sentiment concerning a work in which he hadpreserved the most profound associations of his lifewould not have been Rossetti ; but the flawlesscharm of the upturned face, surrounded by its gloryof red-gold hair, speaks much more eloquently thanwords of the mood of the painter toward his CHAPTER MIDDLE YEARS. UP to the date we have now reached Rossettisworks show great variety. It was the firstfree running of the wine, and the yearsbetween i8so and 1863 may justifiably be called theyears of his splendour and vigour as a painter. Dur-ing this period his dramatic invention was at itsheight, and his colour was brilliant without the hottones that came into it later. Many of the littlepictures of this time, Mr. Sidney Colvinsays, flashand glow like jewels or the fragments of some gor-geous painted window. He was nourishing hismind on the Bible, on Dante, on Browning, and onthe .Arthurian Legends, and from these sources hedrew an inspiration at once more virile and moretender than the personal inspiration of his Inter pic-tures. Before he had begun to paint at all he haddrawn some complicated designs illustrative of vari-ous themes suggested by his reading, and as early as1849 he started an elaborate composition based on a line from Pippa Passes (Hist! said Kate the 9
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