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Dante's Dream  1871

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Rossetti had a life-long interest in the Italian poet Dante. This painting shows an episode from the 'Vita Nuova'. In it Dante dreams that he is led by Love to the death-bed of Beatrice Portinari, the object of his unrequited passion. Read more...
Size: 
216 × 312.4 cm (85 × 123 in)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
This photographic reproduction is in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons)