rossetti's more critical reflections on the artistic movement begun by her brother find expression in her 1856 poem "in the artist's studio". here she reflects on seeing multiple paintings of the same model. for rossetti, the artist's idealised vision of the model's character begins to overwhelm his work, until "every canvas means/the one same meaning." dinah roe, in her introduction to the penguin classics collection of pre-raphaelite poetry, argues that this critique of her brother and similar male artists is not so much about "the objectification of women" as about "the male artist's self-worship".