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...stupid woman who had been his model when he was half thinking of being a painter. The daughter of a groom, she devoted most of her life to having the vapors and impersonating one of those large-eyed, long-necked ladies in the once admired paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In fact, it was Rossetti who persuaded Jane to marry Morris. Small wonder that Morris came to regard his devious painter pal as "sometimes an angel, sometimes a damned scoundrel...
GALLERY OF MODERN ART-Columbus Cir cle at 59th. A mammoth exhibition of the late Russian-born painter, Pavel Tchelit-chew (through May 24); a comprehensive survey of Pre-Raphaelite painting that includes Founders William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; also, a 50-work showing of French Sculptor Antoine Bourdelle who, before his death in 1929, did 21 agonized studies of Beethoven, some of them on view. Both through...
...holding back the clock. They were rather a band of rebels in a century abristle with dissent. Three young Englishmen founded the movement in 1848, a year of social revolution throughout Europe, eleven years after Constable's death: William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, none over 21 years...
...flourished particularly in the 19th century: Coleridge, who took dope; Blake, who thundered against "old Nobodaddy aloft"; Rossetti, who buried his sonnets with his dead wife and exhumed both later when he needed material to fill a book...
...relatively few known facts about Rembrandt van Rijn's life. Novelist Schmitt (David the King, The Gates of Aulis) scraped every document, household inventory, drawing, etching and painting for underlying drama-and added countless tableaux of her own, which unfortunately look more like the sentimental Dante Gabriel Rossetti than Rembrandt...