Art Lectio on Instagram: "Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1848-49) Rossetti doesn’t paint Mary at the headline moment. He paints the prelude. A girl at a table. A mother teaching. A father working in the background. An angel close enough to touch the books. It’s devotional, but not dramatic. It makes holiness feel like a rhythm. This was Rossetti’s first major oil painting, made at the birth of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and it still reads like a manifesto: look closely

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