Dante Gabrielle Rossetti (1828- 1882) English painter and poet, was son of an Italian political refugee.In 1848 impatient and discontent of the teachings in the Royal Academy, Rossetti wrote to Ford Madox Brown a letter in order that he became his pupil, Brown would accept him as a scholar and their meeting would lay the foundations of strong life-lasting friendship. It was about this time that Rossetti had also became acquainted with Millais and Hunt and would go on to form with them the Preraphaelite Brotherhood.
Rossetti's essential aim was to reach through art the forgotten world of romance, mystery, wonder and spiritual beauty. A rebel against classicism, in his poetry as well as in his paintings Rossetti cultivated more than
anyone else the 'modern revival' of the 'romantic spirit', 'the renaissance of wonder' as it was called, so as much that the poet
who would go beyond Rossetti would pass out of the realm of poetry into pure mysticism.