Dantis Amor - Finished Study, 1859-1860. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Central figure is Love dressed as a pilgrim. This is a study for the oil painting Dantis Amor ('Dante's Love') which was painted in 1850 as the middle panel of a cabinet for William Morris's Red House at Upton (now dismantled). The subject is a symbolic representation of Beatrice's death.

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Keywords: art, drawing, ink, movement, pre-raphaelite, symbol, symbolism