The Blessed Damozel

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The Blessed Damozel is a famous 19th-century poem and later painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that epitomizes the romantic, medievalizing, and spiritually charged aesthetic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
poem
artPeriod Victorian art
artStyle detailed naturalism
rich color
associatedWith Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s early career
Victorian spiritualism
author Dante Gabriel Rossetti
centralCharacter her earthly lover
the damozel
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
culturalSignificance iconic image in Pre-Raphaelite painting
key work of Pre-Raphaelite literature
depicts a woman in Heaven longing for reunion
firstPublicationCentury 19th century
form lyric narrative
genre narrative poem
hasAdaptation The Blessed Damozel (painting)
imagery lilies
roses
stars
the bar of Heaven
influencedBy Romanticism
medieval Christian art
language English
literaryMovement Pre-Raphaelite
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
literaryStyle highly pictorial description
symbolic imagery
movement Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
notableFor Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic
medievalizing imagery
sensuous religious symbolism
painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti
poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti
setting Heaven
subjectMatter heavenly vision of a beloved woman
separation of lovers by death
theme afterlife
death
love
religious imagery
spiritual longing

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite art
notableWork
The Blessed Damozel ("the damozel")
centralCharacter
The Blessed Damozel ("The Blessed Damozel (painting)")
hasAdaptation

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