The Question and Answer section for In an Artist’s Studio is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The phrase "feeds upon her face" suggests that the artist obtains a form of satisfaction or nourishment from looking at the image of the woman he adores, however it is an example of hyperbole. He is not literally biting or chewing her, but the act...
When the speaker expresses the belief that the artist “feeds upon the face" of the woman he portrays, she calls upon the myth of Pygmalion, in which an artist becomes enamored with a sculpture he has created, until eventually that sculpture comes...
“In an Artist’s Studio” can be also be seen as Rossetti offering a critique of artists' objectification of women in art. Too often, the argument goes, women are seen simply as an artist’s muse, as the highest object of artistic representation, no...
