A 155-year-old letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to the banker and collector George Rae is going on show in Liverpool this week, explaining why the Pre-Raphaelite artist couldn’t make a meeting and ...

Illustration on a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Fanny Cornforth (nd) (courtesy Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Manuscript Collection, Delaware Art Museum) One of those visits was ...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “La Ghirlandata” (detail) (1873), oil on canvas (image courtesy Guildhall Art Gallery, photo by City of London Corporation) The name “Rossetti” is often associated with ...

The walls of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s parlor were filled with mirrors of all sizes; the dining room decorated with black lacquered panels of Mandarin birds, animals, flowers, and fruit delicately ...

Every day, Wilmingtonians encounter legacies of the Bancroft family. Samuel Bancroft Jr. (1840-1915) and William Bancroft (1835-1928) radically reshaped Wilmington by preserving public green space, ...

Born Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti on May 12, 1828, in London, England, he was the son of the Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori. Raised in a household steeped in ...

Fanny Cornforth posted for "Lady Lilith" and other influential Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain The personal lives of artists don’t just result in great art—sometimes, they’re ...