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Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2005;7:280.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a painter, poet, and pioneering member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle of painters working in England during the mid-19th century. Rossetti was born in England in 1828; his father was an Italian political exile and Dante scholar who taught Italian at Kings College in London. From an early age, Rossetti identified with his famous namesake and in 1849 translated Dante’s autobiographical Vita Nuova into English. Despite his literary gifts, in 1845 the young Rossetti enrolled in the Antique School of the Royal Academy to study painting. However, he was an indifferent scholar and soon left the Academy to study independently with his friend and fellow artist Ford Maddox Brown. In 1848, Rossetti joined William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais to form a secret society of artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, or PRB. This artistic fraternity was essentially a revivalist rebellion against the Royal Academy’s use of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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