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Beata Beatrix
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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A hand-painted Beata Beatrix reproduction after Rossetti, with the red messenger dove and the warm, hazy palette that turns mourning for Elizabeth Siddal into a vision of transfiguration.
Description
Description
Dusky rose, amber gold and a deep, bruised green move across the surface of this Beata Beatrix reproduction, meeting at the throat and shoulders of Beatrice in passages of warm flesh tone that seem lit from within. The red dove sits as the single hot note in the picture, its wing almost the colour of dried blood against the pale poppy it carries, while the mist behind her dissolves into greys and faded violets that pull the eye back toward Florence. This hand-painted Beata Beatrix reproduction carries that same collision of warmth and haze, the glow of the central figure built up against a background kept intentionally soft and unresolved.
About Beata Beatrix Reproduction
Rossetti began the composition in the years after the death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal, reworking drawings he had made of her in life into the likeness of Beatrice Portinari, the figure Dante Alighieri wrote of in La Vita Nuova. She sits with her head tilted back and her eyes closed, neither fully in death nor in life, caught at the moment the poet describes as transfiguration rather than ending. The red dove, a messenger of love in the Dante narrative, drops the white poppy into her open hands, a detail that carries its own weight given the laudanum connected to the death of Siddal.
Behind her the picture loosens further. Blurred figures representing Dante and Love stand in the mist, and beyond them the Ponte Vecchio and a sundial appear only faintly, as though the painting cannot quite hold onto the physical city. The brushwork throughout is loose rather than descriptive, built in glazes that let colour glow rather than sit flat, a method closer to the later, more symbolic phase of the career of Rossetti than to the sharper edges of his early Pre-Raphaelite work.
The hand-painted reproduction
Our painters study the version of this composition held at Tate Britain, working in oil on canvas to match its palette, its atmosphere and the visible movement of the brush across the surface. This is an oil on canvas reproduction built stroke by stroke rather than printed, so the layered glazes around the dove and the softened edges of the background mist carry real depth and texture under raking light. Each oil painting reproduction is painted individually by a trained artist, matched as closely as possible to the proportions and colour of the original.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas, not a printed copy
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall it is intended for
- Arrives gallery-ready for hanging
- Includes a certificate of authenticity
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
It suits a reader of Dante as readily as a collector of Pre-Raphaelite painting, and it holds a quiet room well, somewhere the softened light of the picture has space to work without competition.
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