Was Rossetti's art too sentimental?
Some might perceive the intense emotional content of my work as sentimental. However, I would argue that this intensity is a reflection of genuine human feeling, particularly the profound and often agonizing nature of love, loss, and spiritual yearning. The medieval romances and lyrical poetry that inspired me are inherently passionate. My aim was not to evoke shallow emotion, but to capture the powerful currents of the soul, the ecstatic highs and crushing lows of existence, rendered with as much fidelity and symbolic resonance as possible.
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