concept:era modern
Beata Beatrix
Oil on canvas (begun c.1864, completed c.1870) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Tate Britain, London. Memorial portrait of Elizabeth Siddal depicted as Dante's Beatrice at the moment of death/transfiguration. A red dove delivers a white poppy into her hands.
Scholarly Significance
Pre-Raphaelite movement's most complex iconographic work, fusing Dante's Vita Nuova with personal grief over Siddal's death.