Reviving the medieval art through passionate imagination and sensuality, the British painter, poet and translator, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is famous for founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of painters treating religious, moral, and medieval subjects in a nonacademic manner.

Best-known for influencing the European Symbolists and inspiring the second generation of artists and writers, Rossetti was born on May 12, 1828, in London, England, to English-Italian parents.