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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.
Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah: 1855: Tate Britain, London: The Passover in the Holy Family: Gathering Bitter Herbs: 1855–56: Tate Britain, London: The Blue Closet: 1856–57: Tate Britain, London: Dante's Dream on the Day of the Death of Beatrice: 9th of June, 1290 or Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice: 1856 ,
[2] Many of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's paintings, including Dante's Dream, had as their subject the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, and this interest is the likely inspiration for Holiday's painting. [2] It is based on Dante's 1294 autobiographical work La Vita Nuova which describes his love for Beatrice Portinari. Dante concealed his love by ...
This drawing was made for the figure of the attendant on the left holding a shroud over Beatrice's beir in Rossetti's largest painting Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) commissioned in 1869 by the Liberal M.P. for Glasgow William Graham.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a Pre-Raphaelite, made several paintings of the Divine Comedy, including Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah (1855, for Purgatorio XXVII), Pia de' Tolomei, his largest painting Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice (1871), and Beata Beatrix (1872). [57]
Gustav Klimt’s romantic portrait “Dame mit Fächer” (Lady with a Fan) established a new record for the artist and became the most expensive artwork to ever sell in a European auction.
The lower section, with its flowers and background decorativism, is typical of Klimt; the upper section, where the figures are contraposed to a monochrome backdrop, reveals a synthesis of strained lines closer to Schiele's style. [2] 30: c. 1917-18 – Lady with a Fan (oil on canvas: Klimt's last painting.