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This is one of a series of decorative pictures of beautiful and sensual women, which Rossetti produced in the mid 1860s. The model is Alexa Wilding, who sat for some of Rossetti\\'s best-known works, including La Ghirlandata (1873, Guildhall Art Gallery, Corporation of London) and The Blessed Damozel (1875-8, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts). The spiral pearl clasp in her flowing auburn hair and the red coral necklace appear frequently in Rossetti\\'s pictures of women. Along with the sweeping movement of her arms, the green rosettes on her shoulder and the floral earrings, they serve to accentuate the picture\\'s circular composition. The heavily embroidered white and gold drapery is used in other pictures of this date, including Monna Rosa (untraced). The enormous sleeve recalls Raphael\\'s portrait of Giovanna of Aragon in the Louvre.
Rossetti originally called the picture Venus Veneta, and intended it to represent \\'a Venetian lady in a rich dress of white and gold, - in short the Venetian ideal of female beauty\\' (quoted in a letter dated 27 September 1866, Doughty & Wahl, II, p.606). After the picture was finished he changed the title to Monna Vanna, denoting a \\'vain woman\\', a name taken from Dante\\'s Vita Nuova, which Rossetti had translated in October 1848.

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Fogg Art Museum - Harvard University - Cambridge, MA
The Blessed Damozel (1875-78)
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Rossetti used his most famous poem as the inspiration for this painting 25 yearsafter publishing it. He wrote the first version of \\'The Blessed Damozel\\' in 1847.The theme was inspired by Dante Alighieri.The maiden leans out of her balcony in heaven while behind her newly reconciled lovers embrace one another among the deathless roses of heaven. She seesher lover lying fully corporal on earth and yearns for his death, so that he mightjoin her forever in heaven.The seven stars are The Pleiads. One star is hidden behind her head.
Mythology:
The Pleiads were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. "The lost pleiad"is Electra, who veiled her face at the burning of Troy, appearing to mortals
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\\'I cannot say that Rossetti\\'s presence was enlivening [in his later years]. My most representative recollection of him is of his sitting beside Mrs. Morris, who looked as if she had stepped out of any one of his pictures, both wrapped in a motionless silence as of a world where they would have no need of words. And silence, however poetically golden, was a sin in a poet whose voice in speech was so musical as his - hers I am sure I never heard.\\'
R.E. Francillon, Mid-Victorian Memories (1913), p,172
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Lost Days.
The lost days of my life until today,
What were they, could I see them on the street
Lie as they fell?
I do not see them here; but after death
God knows I know the faces I shall see,
Each one a murdered self, with low last breath
‘I am thyself, - what hast thou done to me?
‘And I – and I – thyself,’ (lo! Each one saith,)
‘And thou thyself to all eternity!’
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Genius in Beauty.
Soul\\'s Beauty
Body\\'s Beauty
Lost days.
Retro Me Sathana!
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin.
A Sea-Spell.
Proserpina.
La Bella Mano.
Astarte Syriaca.
Fiammetta.
The Day-Dream. .
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Aspecta Medusa.
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, , , . Jennie Jacques is an English actress who first came to prominence playing Annie Miller, a significant role featuring in five episodes of the BBC series Desperate Romantics,[1] a six-part television drama serial about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, first broadcast on BBC Two in July and August 2009
The series was inspired by and takes its title from Franny Moyle's factual book about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives Of The Pre-Raphaelites.
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