Wedding of St George Princess Sabra Dante Rossetti Business Card

The Wedding of St. George and the Princess Sabra (1857). Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). The Wedding of St. George and the Princess Sabra is a vintage Victorian Pre-Raphaelite fine art love and romance painting featuring work was executed while Rossetti and other artists were decorating the Oxford Union with medievalist murals. In Oxford, Rossetti saw Jane Burden, later Mrs William Morris, and immediately asked her to pose for him. She is the model for Princess Sabra, threading a lock of her hair through St George's helmet. The claustrophobic composition is characteristic of much of Rossetti's work at this time. Sabra's embrace of an armoured figure, enmeshing him with her hair, and St George's distracted gaze hint at Rossetti's dilemma of being involved with Elizabeth Siddall but feeling a strong attraction for Jane. About the artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 and was later to be the main inspiration for second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement.