Dante's Dream

Dante's Dream (full title Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice) is an oil on canvas painting from 1871 by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It hangs in the Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool.

He repeated a composition he had done in watercolour and gouache at a smaller scale in 1856. This is now in Tate Britain, measuring 48.7 cm (19.1 in) by 66.2 cm (26 in).

Rossetti painted a smaller-scale replica (178 x 133 cm) of the painting with two predella panels in 1880, for his patron William Graham. In the Victoria Gallery at The_McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee, Scotland.

Rossetti had a lifelong interest in the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. The painting was inspired by Dante's poem La Vita Nuova. In this poem Dante dreams that he is led to the death-bed of Beatrice Portinari, who was the object of his unfulfilled love. Dante, in black, stands…

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