Message #2622

[Dawn Moline]

Fazio's Mistress, 1863.D.G.Rossetti 
(loose, luxuriant hair was an emblem of female sexuality in Pre-Raphaelite painting...[Here] we may well have a clue to the rippling effect of so much Pre-Raphaelite hair.  After washing, the tresses were plaited while still wet--as Fanny is shown doing--and then allowwed to dry, creating a naturally crimped look Marsh 23.)

V. Important Dates related to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the three women
  1848 the formation of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
 
1849 met Elizabeth Siddal and used her as the main model (not to be used by the others)
 
1856 met Fanny Cornforth and used her as the main model
 
1857 met Jane Morris
 
1860 married Siddal
 
1862 Siddal died
 
1863 Fanny Cornforth became somebody else's housekeeper.
 
1865 used J. Morris as the main model
 
1871 Dante Gabriel Rossetti criticized as "the Fleshly School of Poetry"
 
1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti died 

www.eng.fju.edu.tw/crit.97/PRwomen/final.htm