![]() ![]() Regardless,in 1867 he had altered the face on the portrait to fit the features of his favourite model Alexa Wilding who sat for many of his paintings. We don’t know what she looked like perhaps she fit Rossetti’s ideal of a woman perfectly, or perhaps with his imagination and with his brush he transformed her into his feminine ideal. The original model for the goddess of love was an exceptionally beautiful cook that Rossetti had met in the street. Painting “Venus Verticordia” is a gorgeous example of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s style of portraits from the 1860s. (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Venus Verticordia)ĭante Gabriel Rossetti, Venus Verticordia, 1864-68 ![]() That follows its brief sweetness to his heart,-” ![]()
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