La Donna Della Finestra Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1879
Jane Burden Morris <artist/> <location/> <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 comprises a kind of double work, given the fact that DGR appropriated the Dantean text as his own through his extraordinary translation (see commentary below).</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p/> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p>Begun in 1870 with various studies and early versions of the general design, DGR did not complete the oil version until 1879. The earlier studies are often more impressive than the late oil, however—most notably, for example, the <xref doc="a.s255a.rap">pastel</xref> now located at Bradford and the <xref doc="a.s255d.rap">pastel</xref> now at Whitworth, a picture that never left DGR's possession.</p> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</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>The painting illustrates the text in the later part of the <xref doc="a."> <title level="wrk"> <hi rend="i">Vita Nuova</hi> when Dante is grieving over the loss of Beatrice and suddenly sees “a young and very beautiful lady, who was gazing upon me from a window with a gaze full of pity, so that the very sum of pity appeared gathered together in her” (see DGR's translation <hi rend="i">The New Life</hi> ).

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Marillier, <hi rend="i">DGR: An Illustrated Memorial</hi> , 196-197 WMR, <hi rend="i">DGR Designer and Writer</hi> , 107-108 Sharp, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 257-259 Stephens, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</hi> , 74-75. Surtees, <hi rend="i">A Catalogue Raisonné</hi> , vol. 1, 151-152 (no. 255). Treuherz, Prettejohn, and Becker, <hi rend="i">DGR</hi> , 208-209 (no. 144). Wildman, <hi rend="i">Visions of Love and Life</hi> , 312-314.

Fogg Museum of Art oil Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 0 Dante Gabriele Rossetti con 107 Illustrazioni Elena Rossetti Angeli 1906 0 Masterpieces of D. G. Rossetti (1828-1882): Sixty Reproductions of Photographs from the Original Oil-paintings 1923 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ernest Radford 1905 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti F. G. Stephens 1894 0 Drawings of D. G. Rossetti Wood, T. Martin 1907 0 Drawings of D. G. Rossetti Wood, T. Martin 1907 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 La Donna Della Finestra The Lady of Pity DGR 1881 oil on an Indian red ground 3 La Donna Della Finestra The Lady of Pity DGR 1879 1879 oil 8 La Donna Della Finestra The Lady of Pity DGR 1870 1870 pastel 3 La Donna Della Finestra (replica) The Lady of Pity DGR 1870 black and white chalk 1 La Donna Della Finestra (sketch) The Lady of Pity DGR 1870 (circa) coloured chalks 1 La Donna Della Finestra (finished drawing) The Lady of Pity DGR 1870 1870 pastel on greenish paper 5 La Donna Della Finestra (drawing) The Lady of Pity DGR 1880 1880 coloured chalks 1 La Donna Della Finestra DGR 1879 (circa) pen and ink 1 La Donna Della Finestra [print] Hollyer 1870-1913 (circa) photoprint (browntone) mounted on board 1 La Donna Della Finestra [print] unknown 1881-1913 (circa) photoprint (dark brown ink) mounted on board 1 La Donna della Finestra [print] unknown 1880-1913 (circa) Black and white photoprint mounted on board. 1 La Donna Della Finestra (finished drawing) [print] DGR 1855-1913 (circa) Charcoal and beige print mounted on beige board 1 La Donna Della Finestra [print] DGR 1855-1913 (circa) Brown and cream print mounted on white board 1 La Donna Della Finestra [print] DGR 1855-1913 (circa) Cream and brown print mounted on white board 1 La Donna della Finestra [print] DGR 1875-1900 (circa) Charcoal and white print mounted on cream board 1