Although Rossetti painted Jane Morris repeatedly, it is a bit unusual to see her painted as Beatrice. Beatrice, Dante Alighieri’s unrequited love, is a character Rossetti strongly associated with Elizabeth Siddal. There is another painting of Jane Morris as Beatrice at The Rossetti Archive titled The Salutation of Beatrice, also known as The Lady in [...]
Throughout his relationship with Elizabeth Siddal, Rossetti painted and drew her repeatedly and almost obsessively, creating what Ford Madox Brown termed a “drawer full of Guggums” (Rossetti and Siddal’s pet name for each other). In later years, Rossetti fixed upon Jane Morris as his muse and recreated her image again and again with the same [...]
Although not as often as the Lady of Shalott, Guinevere was an Arthurian subject visited by the Pre-Raphaelites. Medievalism had grown in popularity early in the nineteenth century England and had a definite influence on William Morris especially, who even rode a horse in a toy suit of armor as a child. It is interesting [...]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted La Pia de Tolomei at the beginning of his affair with Jane Morris, the wife of his friend William Morris. In this painting, Jane models as La Pia, from Dante Alighieri’s poem the Divine Comedy. La Pia is found by Dante during his travel through Purgatory, in Part II of the [...]
Jack Challem emailed me several days ago. You may remember that Mr. Challem has been kind enough to share priceless info with me before, namely an article about Elizabeth Siddal and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s handwriting, an image of their marriage certificate, and photos of Lizzie Siddal’s grave. Once again, I am grateful that he has [...]
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Image shown: study for Pandora, painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1869). Model: Jane Morris. Rossetti cast Jane in several famous roles such as Proserpine, Astarte Syriaca, and featured here: Pandora. Instead of exploring Rossetti’s motives in immortalizing Jane in such a role, I thought we could look at Pandora in general and how she has [...]
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