Beata Beatrix (replica) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 ©Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Beata Beatrix (replica) DGR 1877 Manchester 1911 (no.158); Tate 1911 (no.11); Tokyo 1990 Mrs. WMR Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery 25'91 Given by DGR to Mrs. WMR; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery 1891 oil 33 x 25 1/2 in. Bunkamura Museum of Art, 75. Delaware Art Museum (print) <artist/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p> This version of the work differs sharply from the other oils. The background detail clearly develops the cityscape as Florence (rather than leaving the matter ambiguously Florence or London); and the accessories are quite different as well. The messenger-dove is white in this version, not red, and the poppies are red, not white. The details framing the figure of Love (at the left) are distinctive to this work as well (the <hi rend="i"> <foreign lang="latin">arbor vitae</foreign> </hi> is replaced by a wall-niche with a crucifix above. The light is also represented very differently in this work from the others. Here light suffuses the area behind Beatrice from a source that is represented as natural (as the lines of light at the left emphasize). In general, the treatment verges on a kind of realism, even though the general iconic/symbolic composition is retained.</p> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p>This replica was completed by <xref doc="a." link="dead">Ford Madox Brown</xref> after DGR's death.</p> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconograpic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Surtees</author>, <xref doc="a.n6797.r58s9.vol1.rad" from="96" workcode="s168"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 96 (no. 168r-5). <hi rend="i">DGR 1828-1882: An Exhibition</hi> , Tokyo 1990, 94-95.