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A Vision of Fiammetta
A Vision of Fiammetta is an oil painting created by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in the Pre-Raphaelite style, created in 1878. The painting was one half of one of Rossetti's "double works", accompanying his "Ballads and Sonnets" (1881). Maria Spartali Stillman modelled for the painting. The subject of painting is Boccacio's muse named Fiammetta.
Subject.
The frame of the painting is inscribed with three texts: the sonnet by Boccaccio entitled "On his Last Sight
of Fiammetta," which inspired the painting; Rossetti's translation of it, and his own poem mirroring the painting:
Behold Fiammetta, shown in Vision here.
Gloom-girt 'mid Spring-flushed apple-growth she stands;
And as she sways the branches with her hands,
Along her arm the sundered bloom falls sheer,
In separate petals shed, each like a tear;
While from the quivering bough the bird expands
His wings. And lo! thy spirit understands
Life