The Question and Answer section for In an Artist’s Studio is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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...
The poem reflects the singular through the first two lines. The artist seems consumed with the singular: One face looks out from all his canvases, One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans: Here, anaphora of the word "one" and parallelism between...
