Tag: Dante

Giotto Painting Dante’s Portrait (c.1859)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting Dante’s Portrait c.1859 Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream wove paper, mounted to paper-backed canvas, 47.6 x 56.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Private collection…

Guido Cavalcanti

(c.1255–1300) Works: • Rime (Italian) • Sonnets and Ballate (English) Cavalcanti in Art: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting Dante’s Portrait c.1859 Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA     Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Private collection    …

Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante (1852)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Watercolor over pencil, 36.8 x 47 cm Private collection Study: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Tate Britain, London     Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)…

Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante (1852)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Ink on paper, 19 × 16.8 cm Tate Britain, London The medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri inspired some of Blake‘s and Rossetti‘s greatest pictures. They each saw Dante‘s writings…

The Salutation of Beatrice (1880-1882)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) The Salutation of Beatrice 1880–1882 Oil on canvas, 154.3 × 91.4 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The woman in this painting embodies the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty with her pale face, full lips, and thick, wavy,…

Les étoiles filantes (1847-1849)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Les étoiles filantes (The shooting stars) 1847–1849 Oil on board, 18.7 x 34.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This purely imaginary subject is unusual among Millet’s works. It refers to Dante‘s ‘Inferno‘ which in one section describes the…

Beata Beatrix (1871-1872)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix 1871–1872 Oil on canvas, 87.5 × 69.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Inscribed top left on frame: JUN: DIE 9 ANNO 1290; top right on frame: QUOMODO SEDET SOLA CIVITAS!; and bottom of frame: MART:…

Sei poeti toscani (1543-1544)

Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Sei poeti toscani (Six Tuscan Poets) 1543–1544 Oil on panel, 132.1 x 131.1 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis See also: This group portrait of six distinguished Tuscan poets and writers celebrates the golden age of Italian…

Jean-Léon Gérôme

(1824–1904) The artist’s works: Portrait de femme 1851 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Étude des palmiers 1855–1856 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York César mort c.1859 National Gallery of Art, Washington Les Joueurs de dames 1859 Wallace Collection, London Diogène 1860 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore…