Artists throughout time have done impressive pictorial recreations of literary works that speak to them. However, what would the recreation painting be like if the poet painted it himself? In “The Blessed Damozel,” Dante Gabriel Rossetti tells the story of a dead woman in the Heaven, or the damozel, dreaming to rejoin her living lover on earth. However, when the dream ends, she weeps about the uncertainty of her future with the lover. As a poet and a painter, Continue reading