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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Main Author: Yannick Le Pape
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Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/dea/article/view/217
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description 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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History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums
Dante e l'Arte
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art market
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title History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums
title_full History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums
title_fullStr History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums
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title_short History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums
title_sort history and trajectory of rossetti s works after dante between private collections and museums
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