Rossetti: sex drugs and oil paint

Rossetti: sex drugs and oil paint

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Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovers the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter and poet who reinvented the Victorian ideal of female beauty - and who dug up his wife's coffin to retrieve poems he had buried with her.

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