Portrait of Beatrice: Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady

by Fabio Camilletti

Book Overview

The Portrait of Beatrice examines both Dante's and D. G. Rossetti's intellectual experiences in the light of a common concern about visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts, something that resists clear representation, be it the divine beauty of the angel-women or the depiction of the painter's own interiority in a secularized age. By analyzing Dante's Vita Nova alongside Rossetti's Hand and Soul and St. Agnes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268103976
• ISBN13: 9780268103972
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"