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Dante's Dream (full title Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice) is a painting from 1871 by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It hangs in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. He repeated a composition he had done in watercolour and gouache at a smaller scale in 1856.
Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari [1] (Italian: [beaˈtriːtʃe portiˈnaːri]; 1265 – 8 or 19 June 1290) was an Italian woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also identified with the Beatrice who acts as his guide in the last book of his narrative poem the Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia), Paradiso, and during the ...
It is one of Dante's early defenses of the vernacular, expressed in greater detail in his (slightly earlier) linguistic treatise De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular). Books 2 and 3 form a unit, both focusing on Dante's new love after the death of Beatrice—his love for Lady Philosophy, "the most beautiful and dignified ...
Accounts vary as to how many children Donati and Dante had, but they had at least four children: [6] Pietro (c. 1285) Giovanni (c. 1288) Jacopo (c. 1289) Antonia (c. 1300) There has been discussion among scholars of whether or not the marriage between Donati and Dante was a happy one.
Beata Beatrix is a painting completed in several versions by Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The painting depicts Beatrice Portinari from Dante Alighieri's 1294 poem La Vita Nuova at the moment of her death. The first version is oil on canvas completed in 1870.
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Found (1854–1881) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Episode 3: The Order of Release, 1746 (1854) by John Everett Millais; The Light of the World (1853–1854) by William Holman Hunt; Episode 4: The Scapegoat (1856) by William Holman Hunt; Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice (1871) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti died on 5 February 1919 aged 89 and is buried in the Rossetti family grave on the west side of Highgate Cemetery. In the grave he joined his father, mother, Elizabeth Siddal (wife of his brother Dante) and his sister Christina. The ashes of his son Gabriel Arthur Maddox were interred in the grave in 1932 and three other ...