. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . Vbc 1!?;. ninuU •ling .1. Thus Hit 6 mar- J,. 1 iid exquisite repose ; a me-ind beautiful that it conveysIS true inspiration, but r ^^eatrice. Rosseiu nUndv- Beata Beatrix. the and s 1 cx-. flDi06 Si^^aL 91 On the frame of the picture are the words from Jere-miah uttered by Dante when Beatrices death had despoiled the city of all dignity : Qjiomodo sedetsold civitas. To have indulged in any exuberanceof sentiment concerning a work in which he hadpreserved the most profound associations of his lifewould not have been Rossetti ; but the

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. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . Vbc 1!?;. ninuU •ling .1. Thus Hit 6 mar- J,. 1 iid exquisite repose ; a me-ind beautiful that it conveysIS true inspiration, but r ^^eatrice. Rosseiu nUndv- Beata Beatrix. the and s 1 cx-. flDi06 Si^^aL 91 On the frame of the picture are the words from Jere-miah uttered by Dante when Beatrices death had despoiled the city of all dignity : Qjiomodo sedetsold civitas. To have indulged in any exuberanceof sentiment concerning a work in which he hadpreserved the most profound associations of his lifewould not have been Rossetti ; but the flawlesscharm of the upturned face, surrounded by its gloryof red-gold hair, speaks much more eloquently thanwords of the mood of the painter toward his subject.

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