#dante gabriel rossetti

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Venus Verticordia

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)

Date: 1864–1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Dorset, England

Description

The title of the painting refers to a quotation from the Roman poet Ovid, who describes one of Venus’ attributes as being able to assist Roman women to turn their hearts towards virtue and modesty. This does seem somewhat contradictory for such a heavily sensual and sexual image, but perhaps it is a warning of the dangers of sexual obsession.

The painting is heavy in symbolism. Venus is surrounded by flowers, the roses represent love, while the honeysuckle symbolizes sexual desire and lust. The golden fruit may be seen as the fruit that tempted Eve and led to Adam’s downfall in the Garden of Eden. Alternatively, it may be interpreted as the Apple of Discord from the Greek myth of the Judgement of Paris. In both stories, the presence of a tempting fruit in the company of a beautiful women leads to the downfall and death of men.

Venus points Cupid’s arrow at her own breast to show how she will inflict its power over others. A blue bird in the top right corner foretells doom. The moths or butterflies drawn to the light of Venus’ halo, only to perish, illustrate the brevity of life. There is a golden aura around her head, her hair is long and flaming red. A hair colouring favoured by Rossetti, the other Pre-Raphaelites and their followers. Red hair was chosen because of its rarity, and associations with excessive emotions for example sexual desire.

[preraphaelist]

The Pre-Raphaelite Pothole, Terrace Road, St. Leonards-on-sea; part of the Great Art, Great Potholes series by SinkySnap. (x)

[die-rosastrasse]

I spent all day cleaning and rearranging my room, time for tea and cozy journaling 🖤

[psikonauti]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British,1828-1882)

A Vision of Fiammetta, 1878

Oil on canvas

[garlandedspirits]

Various versions of Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, created between 1874 and 1882

[fayriequeene]

Went for a long drive to the Lady Lever Art gallery

[pre-raphaelisme]

Love's Greeting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, c. 1861

[beatricecenci]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882)

Study for Desdemona’s Death Song

[american-tyger]

ᴅᴀɴᴛᴇ ɢᴀʙʀɪᴇʟ ʀᴏssᴇᴛᴛɪ 𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙖 𝙏𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙭. 1874. Pencil, watercolor and bodycolor with gum arabic on paper: 77 × 88 cm (30 × 34 in).

[metamorphesque]

Fragments, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Psychology

more psychological concepts as reference for your poem/story

Telepathic dream - a dream in which one appears to gain insight or information about a person or event despite not having access to the relevant information in waking life; described by Sigmund Freud.

Thought echoing - (or écho des pensées) an auditory hallucination in which an individual hears their own thoughts repeated in spoken form.

Trait rumination - a tendency to focus attention on negative thoughts and emotions, which is associated with longer and more severe episodes of depression or anxiety.

Twilight state - a state of clouded consciousness in which the individual is temporarily unaware of their surroundings, experiences fleeting auditory or visual hallucinations, and responds to them by performing irrational acts, such as undressing in public, running away, or committing violence. The disturbance occurs primarily in temporal lobe epilepsy, dissociative reactions, and alcohol intoxication. On regaining normal consciousness, individuals usually report that they felt they were dreaming and have little or no recollection of their actual behavior.

Universality of emotions - the finding that certain emotional expressions, appraisals, and manifestations are the same or highly similar across cultures and societies.

Waking dream - an episode of dreamlike visual imagery experienced when one is not asleep. The term is sometimes applied to hallucinations, religious visions, and the like.

Windmill illusion - an illusion of motion of rotating objects, such as windmills and automobile wheels, which appear to reverse direction intermittently.

Xenoglossy - in parapsychology, the ostensible ability of a person to speak or write in a language that is entirely unknown to them.

Yantra - a visual pattern on which attention is focused during concentrative meditation.

Zeigarnik effect - the tendency for interrupted, uncompleted tasks to be better remembered than completed tasks. Some theorists relate this phenomenon to certain gestalt principles of organization but at the level of higher mental processing (e.g., memory), rather than at the level of pure perception; described in 1927 by Bluma Zeigarnik.

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[lionofchaeronea]

Launcelot at the Shrine of the Holy Grail: Study for the Angel of the Holy Grail, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1857

[eirene]

Ecce Ancilla Domini (The Annunciation), circa 1849

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[die-rosastrasse]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

British, 1828-1882

Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance (1863) & Joan of Arc (1882)

[psikonauti]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British,1828-1882)

The Day Dream, 1880

Oil on canvas

[garlandedspirits]

Kate Bush + Dante Gabriel Rossetti