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 [...]
Jane Burden: How a Pre-Raphaelite model changed our image of angels Prof. Roger Homan considers how the Pre-Raphaelite model Jane Burden changed our collective mental image of the appearance of angels. I found this to be an interesting post, although the author does mention Jane’s appearing in Burne-Jones’s The Beguiling of Merlin, when the model [...]
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 [...]
The Day-Dream (for a picture) The thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore Still bear young leaflets half the summer through ; From when the robin ‘gainst the unhidden blue Perched dark, till now, deep in the leafy core, The embowered throstle’s urgent wood-notes soar Through summer silence. Still the leaves come new ; Yet never [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“I have cropped this picture from the 1874 photo of the Burne-Jones and Morris families. It was not a particularly bright sunny day when the picture was taken (better for reducing harsh contrast and bringing out a wider tonal range) and given the photographic equipment of the time, Jane was probably trying to stay still [...]
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