Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Monna_Vanna.jpg
Summary
Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Monna Vanna | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q186748
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Title |
Monna Vanna
Alternative titles:
Belcolore Venus Veneta |
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1866
date QS:P571,+1866-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions |
support: 88.9 × 86.4 cm (35 × 34 in)
with frame: 129 × 116.8 × 9.2 cm (50.7 × 45.9 × 3.6 in) |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q195436
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Current location |
not on view
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Accession number |
N03054
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Credit line | Purchased with assistance from Sir Arthur Du Cros Bt and Sir Otto Beit KCMG through the Art Fund 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes |
English:
Model is
Alexa Wilding
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Rossetti originally called the picture
Venus Veneta
, and intended it to represent «a Venetian lady in a rich dress of white and gold, - in short the Venetian ideal of female beauty» (quoted in a letter dated 27 September 1866, Doughty & Wahl, II, p.606). After the picture was finished he changed the title to
Monna Vanna
, denoting a «vain woman», a name taken from
Dante
's
Vita Nuova
, which Rossetti had translated in October 1848. Rossetti considered the painting to be one of his best works and declared it «probably the most effective as a room decoration that I have ever painted».
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References |
Tate , online database: entry N03054
Rossetti Archive |
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Source/Photographer | http://www.nationalmuseum.se/sv/Om-Nationalmuseum/For-press-och-media1/Pressbilder1/Prerafaeliterna/Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-iMonna-Vannai/ [ dead link ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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