Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

This is a study for the oil painting Dantis Amor which was painted in 1850 as the middle panel of a cabinet for William Morris's Red House at Upton (now dismantled). The side panels represented 'Dante Meeting Beatrice in Florence' and 'Dante and Beatrice in Paradise'. The central panel painting 'Dantis Amor' is now in the Tate collection. The subject is a symbolic representation of Beatrice's death.

Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)	Notes
Qui est per aoamnia Saecula Ben edictus (around sun)/ Quella Beata Beatrice che mira continuamente nella Faccia di Colui (around the moon)/ L'Amor che muove il Sole e l'Atre Stelle (along diagonal dividing line)
-	-	Handwritten	-	Ink

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Dante Alighieri
-	Rome	1965-09 - 1965

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet
103	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1973 - 1973

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
-	Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery	1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
52	Casa di Dante, Abruzzo, Castello Gizzi, Torre de' Passeri, Pescara, Italy	1984-09-16 - 1984-10-31
52	Accademia di Belle Arti di, Brera, Milan	1984-11-09 - 1985-01-13

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
11	Ramsgate Art Gallery	1988-04-09 - 1988-05-14

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
134	Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo	1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14
134	Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya	1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09
134	Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume	1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14

Le Symbolisme en Europe
-	Takamatsu City Museum, Japan	1996-11-01 - 1996-12-08
-	Bunkamura Museum of Art	1996-12-14 - 1997-02-10
-	Himeji City Museum	1997-02-15 - 1997-03-30

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
46	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18
46	Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
Art Journal
	1899-12	London	p. 354.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life
H C Marillier	1899	George Bell and Sons, London	no. 90.

City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley	1939	Bemrose & Sons Ltd., Derby	p. 344

Pre-Raphaelite Painters
John Gere, Robin Ironside	1948	Phaidon, London	p. 37.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne
Virginia Surtees	1971	Oxford University Press, London	vol.1, 117A, pp. 73-74; vol. 2, pl. 181.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Andrea Rose	1977	The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London	no. 2A10.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz	2003	Waanders, Zwolle	p. 160.