Paolo and Francesca da Rimini [SEP] collection
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini is a watercolour by British artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painted in 1855 and now in Tate Britain.
History.
Rossetti's real name was Charles Gabriel Dante Rossetti, but his admiration for the great Florentine poet led him to change it to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and he proceeded to sign all his work so. In the specific, the very subject of this painting is taken from Dante Aligheri's "Inferno", Canto V – it is a
(1819;Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France)
- Ary Scheffer, "Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil", oil on canvas (1835; Wallace Collection, London; an 1855 version is in the Louvre, Paris), and there are other versions.
- Gustave Doré, "Francesca da Rimini", several illustrations to Dante's "Inferno" (1857)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Paolo and Francesca da Rimini" (1862)
- Alexandre Cabanel