Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Ecce Ancilla Domini (The Annunciation) 1850 Oil on canvas, 72.4 × 41.9 cm Tate Britain, London
Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850)
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Self-Portrait (1847)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Self-Portrait 1847 Pencil and white chalk on paper, 20.7 × 16.8 cm National Portrait Gallery, London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1828–1882) Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti The artist’s works: Self-Portrait 1847 National Portrait Gallery, London Ecce Ancilla Domini 1850 Tate Britain, London Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Private collection Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Tate Britain, London Paolo…
John Milton
(1608–1674) Works: • Areopagitica (English) • An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton (English) • L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas (English) • Le Paradis Perdu (French) • Milton’s Comus (English) • Minor Poems (English) •…
Robert Browning
(1812–1889) Works: • A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon (English) • An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry (English) • Browning’s Shorter Poems (English) • Christmas Eve (English) • Dramatic Romances (English) • Life and Letters of Robert Browning…
John Dryden
(1631–1700) Works: • All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy (English) • Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry (English) • Dryden’s Palamon and Arcite (English) • His Majesties Declaration Defended (English) • The Aeneid, Translated by…
Geoffrey Chaucer
(c.1343–1400) Works: • Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key (English) • Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s “De Consolatione Philosophiae” (English) • Chaucer’s Works, Volume 1 (English) • Chaucer’s Works, Volume 2 (English) • Chaucer’s Works, Volume 3 (English) • Chaucer’s Works,…
Self-Portrait (1623)
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Self-Portrait 1623 Oil on panel, 85.7 x 62.2 x 0.5 cm Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, London This painting seems to have been something of a face-saver. In 1621 Rubens supplied Lord Danvers with a Lion Hunt (now lost),…
Madonna del Silenzio (c.1599-1600)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Madonna del Silenzio (Madonna and Sleeping Child with the Infant St John the Baptist) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 51.2 x 68.4 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London
Domine, quo vadis? (1601-1602)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Domine, quo vadis? (Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way) 1601–1602 Oil on wood, 77.4 x 56.3 cm National Gallery, London Saint Peter fled Rome after Christ’s crucifixion, scared that he too would be executed by…