Beata Beatrix

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Painted

c. 1864–70

Collection

Tate Britain, London

Rossetti borrowed the death of Beatrice from Dante's Vita Nuova to paint his wife Elizabeth Siddal, who had died in 1862. Eyes closed and face raised, she sits as a red bird drops a white poppy into her hands; behind her a sundial, a Florentine bridge and two figures, Dante and Love, fade into golden haze.

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