Why it matters
Dante is led in a dream to the deathbed of Beatrice Portinari, the object of his unfulfilled love, as told in La Vita Nuova. Rossetti had a lifelong interest in Dante.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1871.
- It repeats a watercolour of 1856 now in Tate Britain.
- A smaller replica of 1880 is in Dundee.
Based on the Wikipedia article Dante's Dream (CC BY-SA 4.0).
