History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums
If we trace masterpieces by Rossetti "from Dante", we can observe that the most part remains in British or North American collections, although we had in mind that museums of the whole world would have got such emblematic items. Why? Dante was definitely popular in Great-Britain, so that...
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Dante e l'Arte |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/dea/article/view/217 |
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| Summary: | If we trace masterpieces by Rossetti "from Dante", we can observe that the most part remains in British or North American collections, although we had in mind that museums of the whole world would have got such emblematic items. Why? Dante was definitely popular in Great-Britain, so that it was quite easy for Rossetti to negotiate his works, and no doubt that the emerging speculative collecting for businessmen did limit sales to a short panel of wealthy rivals who took advantage of museums' hesitations about Pre-Raphaelitism — as well as foreign critics focused on Rossetti a bit too late, when his works were already in the English acquisitions field. That's why the current location of the Rossetti's "Dante pictures" deals not only with Victorian fantasies but also with the evolution of art market by the second part of the 19th century.
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| ISSN: | 2385-7269 2385-5355 |