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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
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Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Inscriptions
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Date(s) |
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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) |
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Handwritten |
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Ink |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Dante Alighieri |
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Rome |
1965-09 - 1965 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
103 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973 - 1973 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
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Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery |
1976-05-02 - 1976-06-20 |
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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 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
11 |
Ramsgate Art Gallery |
1988-04-09 - 1988-05-14 |
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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 |
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Le Symbolisme en Europe |
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Takamatsu City Museum, Japan |
1996-11-01 - 1996-12-08 |
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Bunkamura Museum of Art |
1996-12-14 - 1997-02-10 |
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Himeji City Museum |
1997-02-15 - 1997-03-30 |
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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 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
Art Journal |
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1899-12 |
London |
p. 354. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life |
H C Marillier |
1899 |
George Bell and Sons, London |
no. 90. |
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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons Ltd., Derby |
p. 344 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Painters |
John Gere, Robin Ironside |
1948 |
Phaidon, London |
p. 37. |
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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. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 2A10. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
p. 160. |
Provenance
Rossetti Sale, 1883 (lot 88), bought in by W M Rossetti £15.15s; Charles Fairfax Murray |
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