Works from the Pre-Raphaelite years will demonstrate how the spirit of popular revolution inspired these artists to initiate the first British avant-garde movement, rebelling against the Royal Academy’s dominance over artistic style and content. This will be shown with an immersive installation of Christina’s poetry, as well as examples of Dante Gabriel’s teenage drawings, reflecting his precocious skill and his enthusiasm for original voices like William Blake and Edgar Allan Poe. The exhibition will begin with a celebration of their young talent, opening with Dante Gabriel’s Ecce Ancilla Domine (The Annunciation) 1850, the stark and evocative painting for which his sister Christina and brother William Michael posed. The children of an Italian revolutionary exile, they grew up in London in a scholarly family and they began their artistic careers as teenagers. The Rossettis led a progressive counterculture, blending past and present to reinvent art and life for a fast-changing modern world. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 Christina Rossetti Goblin Market 1865 © Tate Dante Gabriel Rossetti Lady Lilith 1866 – 1868, altered 1872 – 1873 © Delaware Aer Museum, Samuel and Mary R.
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