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Blanzifiore

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1873
Model: Jane Burden Morris

Bibliography

◦ Marillier, DGR: An IIlustrated Memorial, 170.

◦ Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 128.

◦ WMR, DGR as Designer and Writer, 87-88.



This collection contains 1 text or image, including:


Private Collection oil painting

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This work emerged when DGR cut down a picture he was working on, one of his many attempts at rendering Mrs. Morris as Proserpine. See the group of paintings and drawings relating to that subject.

Iconographic

Mrs. Morris holds a bunch of snowdrops, and in her hair are yellow primroses. These are spring flowers and suggest that the picture represents Proserpine before she was carried off to Hades.

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