Sujet
Blessed Beatrice (Beatrix)
Légende
Commonly read as a memorial to Dante Gabriel Rossetti's dead wife Elizabeth Siddal, Beata Beatrix (1870) takes as its subject Dante's beloved Beatrice, imagined in the autobiographical text of Vita Nuova. The picture, which represents the new direction Rossetti's work would take in the last twenty years of his life, embodies the first of the subsequent series of oil paintings that worshipped female beauty. However, more than a tribute to the power of beautiful women, Rossetti's depiction of Beatrice fuses the quotidian and the supernatural, and it does so in a way that instills the image with a powerful virtuosity and spirituality perhaps exceeding that of other Pre-Raphaelite femme fatales. Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais..
UK
Crédit
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Buyenlarge
Notre référence
UMG20B35_330
Model release
Non
Property release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
17,2Mo (1,3Mo) / 16,9cm x 25,4cm / 2000 x 3000 (300dpi)