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Ecce Ancilla Domini - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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A radical 1850 interpretation of the Annunciation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, featuring a sparse, modern composition and a cool, symbolic colour palette.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti completed Ecce Ancilla Domini in 1850, during the early years of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The painting depicts the Annunciation, a traditional subject in Christian art, yet Rossetti departs from the established conventions of the period. Instead of the typical grand, celestial setting, the scene occurs in a sparse, confined room. The Virgin Mary is shown as a young woman, sitting on a low bed, appearing startled and vulnerable rather than serene. Her red hair and pale complexion are characteristic of the models Rossetti favoured throughout his career.
The angel Gabriel stands before her, offering a lily, a symbol of purity. A white dove, representing the Holy Spirit, enters through the window. Rossetti employs a restricted, cool colour palette dominated by white, blue, and red, which creates a stark, almost clinical atmosphere. The composition is deliberately flattened, rejecting the deep perspective and chiaroscuro common in the academic painting of the time. This stylistic choice reflects the Pre-Raphaelite desire to return to the simplicity and directness of early Italian art, before the influence of Raphael.
The painting was met with significant criticism upon its initial exhibition. Critics found the unconventional portrayal of the Virgin Mary and the lack of traditional religious grandeur unsettling. Despite this reception, the work remains a primary example of the early Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic. It demonstrates the group's focus on naturalism, symbolic detail, and a rejection of the polished, dark tones of the Royal Academy. The inclusion of the red embroidery frame in the foreground adds a touch of domesticity to the scene, grounding the spiritual event in a tangible, human reality. This print captures the precise brushwork and the specific, muted tones of the original canvas, allowing for a close examination of Rossetti's early technical approach.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
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Ecce Ancilla Domini - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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From $29.00 USD
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Rossetti was the engine of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He co-founded it in 1848 with Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, writing the manifesto, recruiting members, and generating the intensity that held the group together. He was nineteen. The name was deliberately provocative: they wanted to reject everything after Raphael, which was most of Western art.
He was born in London to an Italian political exile and named after the author of the Divine Comedy. His father was a professor of Italian at King's College. The household ran on poetry, politics, and argument. Rossetti wrote verse throughout his life and considered himself a poet as much as a painter.
His early paintings are small, bright, and meticulously detailed in the Pre-Raphaelite manner. The Girlhood of Mary Virgin and Ecce Ancilla Domini have the flat, jewelled quality of medieval altarpieces. After 1860 the style changed. The paintings became larger, more sensual, and dominated by the face and figure of Jane Burden, who was William Morris's wife.
The relationship between Rossetti, Morris, and Jane is one of the more uncomfortable triangles in art history. Morris married her. Rossetti painted her obsessively. She modelled for Proserpine, La Pia de' Tolomei, and dozens of other works in which she appears as a mythological woman trapped in an unwanted situation. Whether the affair was physical remains debated. Morris, characteristically, said nothing publicly and channelled his feelings into wallpaper.
Rossetti buried a manuscript of his poems in his wife Lizzie Siddal's coffin when she died of a laudanum overdose in 1862. Seven years later he had the coffin exhumed to retrieve them. He published the poems. He was addicted to chloral hydrate by then and increasingly paranoid. He died in 1882, at fifty-three.
He was born in London to an Italian political exile and named after the author of the Divine Comedy. His father was a professor of Italian at King's College. The household ran on poetry, politics, and argument. Rossetti wrote verse throughout his life and considered himself a poet as much as a painter.
His early paintings are small, bright, and meticulously detailed in the Pre-Raphaelite manner. The Girlhood of Mary Virgin and Ecce Ancilla Domini have the flat, jewelled quality of medieval altarpieces. After 1860 the style changed. The paintings became larger, more sensual, and dominated by the face and figure of Jane Burden, who was William Morris's wife.
The relationship between Rossetti, Morris, and Jane is one of the more uncomfortable triangles in art history. Morris married her. Rossetti painted her obsessively. She modelled for Proserpine, La Pia de' Tolomei, and dozens of other works in which she appears as a mythological woman trapped in an unwanted situation. Whether the affair was physical remains debated. Morris, characteristically, said nothing publicly and channelled his feelings into wallpaper.
Rossetti buried a manuscript of his poems in his wife Lizzie Siddal's coffin when she died of a laudanum overdose in 1862. Seven years later he had the coffin exhumed to retrieve them. He published the poems. He was addicted to chloral hydrate by then and increasingly paranoid. He died in 1882, at fifty-three.
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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
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A deeper solid wood frame: 33mm deep with a 20mm face and Perspex glaze. The print sits unmounted for a clean gallery presentation. Black, white or natural.
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