Rosetti at Guildhall Art Gallery

Thursday 03 July 2025 17:12
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Thursday 03 July 2025 17:13

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Bob Vylan in Glastonbury 2025 shows how art and entertainment often exploded in political and cultural discourse. ‘Really. Walk to the Guildhall Art Gallery. Upstairs in the Victoria section, you will find La Girandata, Dante Gabriel Rosetti proclaimed “the best picture,” painted 152 years ago in 1873.

His eyes are very beautiful; You can look at them all day. The model, Alexa Wilding, has a long ivory neck and oval face with soft and plump lips. On his shoulder fell on hair hair that was burning. The picture is green green which complements the red red. He played Harpa, a symbol of artistic love. Above, two angels watch out our charming figure.

Rosetti painted him in Kelmscott Manor, where he shared rent with the famous master and craft master William Morris. He also shared Jane, Morris’s wife, in a Trois menage. Now, the theme of our angel beauty is suddenly filled with erotic. Scandal, even. And the angels model is Morris’s 10 -year -old daughter May. Discuss.

Rosetti is a Pra-Raphaelite painter, a group that blew up the Victorian community. They reject the symbolic art that came with Raphael around 1500, instead of creating bright, brave, and very detailed paintings that celebrate nature, legend, and myth. They were seen as porridge, and blasphemed.

Victorian family paintings often describe the father standing, a sitting wife and children obediently playing on their feet. Message: strict social order; Women, know your place. But in La Girandata, Alexa challenged all this.

She is a working class girl who lives in Warwick Lane near Newgate-Rosetti jumping out of her taxi one day when she sees her beauty floating throughout the strands. He paid him a retainer and, well, almost everything we know.

He has two children, but no father is recorded. Is that Rosetti? Then the writers characterize the women in their lives as attractive and challenging lover while Alexa is only … someone he paints. But why not judge for yourself? Look at the painting and ask: Is he a mannequinor of a lover who runs? Did he reject a predator artist or mock him? Is the ring finger hidden intentionally? This is a question of lunch tourism to be answered.

Rosetti gave us an artistic literary heritage. He created the word ‘Stunner’ to describe the beauty that captures the senses. Within 152 years, no one will talk about Bob Vylan. But they will still stare beautiful on the guildhall. And so is you.

• Free Guildhall Gallery. The delivery tour takes place at 12.15 and 13.15 every day except Monday. To order a tour guide, visit GuideConcierge.com or email info@guideconcierge.com