Beata Beatrix (painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

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"Beata Beatrix" is a celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that portrays his muse Elizabeth Siddal as Dante’s Beatrice in a dreamlike, symbol-laden vision of love and death.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Pre-Raphaelite painting
painting
artHistoricalSignificance iconic image of Elizabeth Siddal
key work of the Pre-Raphaelite movement
associatedWith Elizabeth Siddal’s death
Rossetti’s personal grief
basedOn the death of Beatrice in Dante’s La Vita Nuova
collection Tate Britain
colorPalette golds
muted greens
reds
completionDate circa 1870
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Dante Gabriel Rossetti
depictionStyle dreamlike
symbol-laden
depicts Beatrice degli Uberti
surface form: Beatrice Portinari

Elizabeth Siddal
describedAs vision of love and death
genre allegorical painting
portrait
symbolic painting
hasPart background figure of Dante
background figure of an angelic Beatrice
poppy
red dove
sundial
hasVersion later replicas by Rossetti
iconography dove as messenger of death and love
poppy as symbol of sleep and death
sundial as symbol of passing time
inception circa 1864
inspiredBy Dante Alighieri
La Vita Nuova
location London, England
surface form: London
mainSubject death
love
spiritual vision
transcendence
model Elizabeth Siddal
movement Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
notableWorkOf Dante Gabriel Rossetti
originalLanguageTitle Beata Beatrix
portrays Elizabeth Siddal as Beatrice
setting idealized Florence
titleInEnglish Blessed Beatrice

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Elizabeth Siddal inspiredWork Beata Beatrix (painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)