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Portrait of Beatrice - Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady Camilletti FabioPevná vazba

The Portrait of Beatrice examines both Dante's and D. G. Rossetti's intellectual experiences in the light of a common concern about visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts, something…

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The Portrait of Beatrice examines both Dante's and D. G. Rossetti's intellectual experiences in the light of a common concern about visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts, something that resists clear representation, be it the divine beauty of the angel-women or the depiction of the painter's own interiority in a secularized age. By analyzing Dante's Vita Nova alongside Rossetti's Hand and Soul and St. Agnes of Intercession, which inaugurates the Victorian genre of 'imaginary portrait' tales, this book examines how Dante and Rossetti explore the tension between word and image by creating 'imaginary portraits.' The imaginary portrait--Dante's sketched angel appearing in the Vita Nova or the paintings evoked in Rossetti's narratives--is not (only) a non-existent artwork: it is an artwork whose existence lies elsewhere, in the words

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