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Giotto Painting Portrait Dante
Bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927
adults
architecture
art and craft
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
chapel
Dante Alighieri
Dante, ‘Divine Comedy: Purgatorio’
drawing
fine arts and music
fresco
Giotto di Bondone
group
groups
individuals: male
inscriptions
interiors
Italian text
leisure and pastimes
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
man
named individuals
objects
painting
people
poem
portraits
religious
scaffolding
symbols and personifications
townscapes / man-made features
woman
work and occupations
<p>The medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri inspired some of Blake's and Rossetti's greatest pictures. They each saw Dante's writings in a very different light. Blake felt that they were rooted too much in 'This World'. Rossetti was attuned to Dante's view of love as a sublime, spiritual experience. Rossetti's father was a Dante scholar and it was through his work, not Blake's illustrations, that he came to Dante's poetry. But Blake was still a powerful influence on the young Rossetti. In 1847 he bought Blake's Notebook. It contained outspoken comments on established old masters. These stimulated Rossetti's rebelliousness, which ultimately led to the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique ink
21 January 2002 – 21 September 2002
2002-09-21
21 January 2002 – 21 September 2002
2002-09-21
2002-01-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-01-21
Rossetti and Medievalism
Collection based display
15 August 2007 – 18 November 2007
2007-11-18
15 August 2007 – 18 November 2007
2007-11-18
2007-08-15
Wordsworth Trust (Grasmere, UK)
http://www.wordsworth.org.uk
2007-08-15
Dante Rediscovered
Loan-out
27 February 2010 – 5 December 2010
2010-12-05
27 February 2010 – 6 June 2010
2010-06-06
2010-02-27
Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna (Ravenna, Italy)
15 September 2010 – 5 December 2010
2010-12-05
2010-09-15
Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK)
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/
2010-02-27
Pre-Raphelites
Loan-out
20 April 2015 – 7 May 2017
2017-05-07
1 March 2015 – 7 May 2017
2017-05-07
2015-03-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-04-20
Pre Raphaelite Works on Paper
Collection based display
14 December 2018 – 19 September 2021
2021-09-19
19 June 2019 – 6 October 2019
2019-10-06
2019-06-19
Palazzo Reale (Milan, Italy)
13 May 2021 – 19 September 2021
2021-09-19
2021-05-13
Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest, Hungary)
2018-12-14
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Tate partnerships & programmes
6 April 2023 – 24 September 2023
2023-09-24
6 April 2023 – 24 September 2023
2023-09-24
2023-04-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
21 October 2023 – 28 January 2024
2024-01-28
2023-10-21
Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, USA)
2023-04-06
The Rossettis
Exhibition
1 October 2023 – 31 January 2024
2024-01-31
1 October 2023 – 31 January 2024
2024-01-31
2023-10-01
Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, USA)
2023-10-01
Rossetti
Loan-out
Study for ‘Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante’
support: 190 × 168 mm
Bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927
<p>The medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri inspired some of Blake's and Rossetti's greatest pictures. They each saw Dante's writings in a very different light. Blake felt that they were rooted too much in 'This World'. Rossetti was attuned to Dante's view of love as a sublime, spiritual experience. Rossetti's father was a Dante scholar and it was through his work, not Blake's illustrations, that he came to Dante's poetry. But Blake was still a powerful influence on the young Rossetti. In 1847 he bought Blake's Notebook. It contained outspoken comments on established old masters. These stimulated Rossetti's rebelliousness, which ultimately led to the formation of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pre-raphaelite" title="Glossary definition for 'Pre-Raphaelite'"><span>Pre-Raphaelite</span></a> Brotherhood in 1848.</p>
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adults architecture art and craft artist, painter arts and entertainment chapel Dante Alighieri Dante, ‘Divine Comedy: Purgatorio’ drawing fine arts and music fresco Giotto di Bondone group groups individuals: male inscriptions interiors Italian text leisure and pastimes literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) man named individuals objects painting people poem portraits religious scaffolding symbols and personifications townscapes / man-made features woman work and occupations