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Lady Lilith. SIBYLLA PALMIFERA.
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The magnificent painting Sibylla Palmifera demonstrates the connections artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti often made between his paintings and his poetry. One of the sonnets from the House of Life reveals the subject of Sibylla Palmifera (or "Soul's Beauty"): This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praiseThy voice and hand shake still, - long known to theeBy flying hair and fluttering hem, - the beatFollowing her daily of thy heart and feet,How passionately and irretrievably,In what fond flight, how many ways and days! The painting features a great deal of symbolic detail. The woman holds a palm, which suggests victory - some sources state that Rossetti meant to represent the victory of the soul over death. Indeed, other symbols in the work seem to reinforce this interpretation. The butterflies that hover in the background are symbols of the soul, and the poppies that appear in the upper right corner are often used to symbolize sleep or death in art. Sibylla Palmifera is also an example of one of Rossetti's primary artistic obsessions - depicting the beautiful woman that so haunted his imagination. In this image, the artist's model was the 'stunner' Alexa Wilding. In addition to Sibylla Palmifera, the lovely Alexa Wilding appears in several of Rossetti's other works, including his Lady Lilith, La Sidonia von Bork" by Edward Burne-Jones, 1860 (Tate Gallery London).
SOUL'S BEUATY
[SIBYLLA PALMIFERA]
Under the arch of Life, where love and death,
Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw
Beauty enthroned; and though her gaze struck awe,
I drew it in as simply as my breath.
The sky and sea bend on thee, - which can draw,
By sea or sky or woman, to one law,
The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath.
This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise
Thy voice and hand shake still, - long known to thee
By flying hair and fluttering them, - the beat
Following her daily of thy heart and feet,
How passionately and irretrievably,
In what fond flight, how many ways and days!
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The magnificent painting Sibylla Palmifera demonstrates the connections artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti often made between his paintings and his poetry. One of the sonnets from the House of Life reveals the subject of Sibylla Palmifera (or "Soul's Beauty"): This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praiseThy voice and hand shake still, - long known to theeBy flying hair and fluttering hem, - the beatFollowing her daily of thy heart and feet,How passionately and irretrievably,In what fond flight, how many ways and days! The painting features a great deal of symbolic detail. The woman holds a palm, which suggests victory - some sources state that Rossetti meant to represent the victory of the soul over death. Indeed, other symbols in the work seem to reinforce this interpretation. The butterflies that hover in the background are symbols of the soul, and the poppies that appear in the upper right corner are often used to symbolize sleep or death in art. Sibylla Palmifera is also an example of one of Rossetti's primary artistic obsessions - depicting the beautiful woman that so haunted his imagination. In this image, the artist's model was the 'stunner' Alexa Wilding. In addition to Sibylla Palmifera, the lovely Alexa Wilding appears in several of Rossetti's other works, including his Lady Lilith, La Sidonia von Bork" by Edward Burne-Jones, 1860 (Tate Gallery London).
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La Donna della Finestra. The Lady of the Window.
1879 Oil on canvas 39 3/4 x 29 1/4 inches (101 x 74.3 cm) Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts, USA
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Oil on canvas (unfinished).
Width: 870 mm
Height: 970 mm.
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This was one of the first major Pre-Raphalite pictures to enter the collection and was bought directly from the artist's studio sale in May 1883. It is an unfinished version of an earlier painting of 1879 which is at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. There is also a pastel version of 1870 at Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester. The picture illustrates a passage from the Dante's Vita Nuova in which a woman, otherwise known as the 'Lady of the Window', looks down from her window upon the grief-stricken Dante mourning the death of Beatrice. Here the lady is seen seated at an open window, leaning her arms upon the sill, and looking downwards. The head is a likeness of Jane Morris.

La Donna Della Finestra
1880
Coloured chalks on 2 sheets of buff paper, and signed with a monogram
133 x 28 inches, 83.9 x 71.2 cm.
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The inspiration for this painting came from the Vita nuova, in which a woman looking down from her balcony is compassionate towards the bereaved and weeping Dante who she sees in the street below. The woman was Gemma Donati who later became Dante's wife.
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The subject of 'La Donna della Finestra' derives from Dante's autobiographical Vita Nuova, the book that did most to shape Rossetti's attitudes to love. It tells, in a symbolical and mystical fashion, the history of Dante's love for Beatrice. Rossetti translated it into English around 1850 and published it with other translations from the Early Italian poets in 1861. The Vita Nuova inspired Rossetti's paintings and designs throughout his career. He first treated 'La Donna della Finestra' in 1870 and from this date it became one of his favourite Dante subjects.
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The figure of the Woman at the Window appears when Dante is sunk deep in grief for the death of Beatrice. Dante speaks;'Then, having sat for some space sorely in thought because of the time that was now past, I was filled with dolorous imaginings that it became outwardly manifest in mine altered countenance. Whereupon, feeling this and being in dread lest any should have seen me, I lifted my eyes to look; and then perceived a young and very beautiful lady, who was gazing upon me from a window with a gaze full of pity, so that the very sum of pity appeared gathered together in her'.
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In the usual allegorical interpretation of the Vita Nuova, the lady represents Philosophy, but Rossetti had no intention of representing an abstract personification and regarded the vision as a real woman. In the words of William Michael Rossetti:'Humanly she is the Lady at the Window; mentally she is the Lady of Pity. This interpretation of soul and body — this sense of an equal and undefensible reality of the thing symbolized, and of the form which conveys the symbol — this externalism and internalism — are constantly to be understood as the key-note of Rossetti's aim and performance in art.
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The sitter for this work was Jane Morris, with whom Rossetti fell in love in about 1868. It is significant that he chose to represent her as 'La Donna Della Finestra', suggesting that he felt she brought him consolation for the death of his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, whom he regarded as his Beatrice. Yet as Rossetti's love for Jane deepened he represented her as Beatrice also, for instance in the large oil painting 'Dante's Dream at the time of the Death of Beatrice' (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool).
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The owner of the present drawing was William Graham, who was, with Frederick Leyland, Rossetti's most important patron. He began to buy from Rossetti in the mid 1860s, but was not just important as a purchaser. His fine collection of early Italian paintings — (the original Pre-Raphaelites) helped to inspire Rossetti and the other artists whom Graham supported including Edward Burne-Jones. An insight into the scope of Graham's collection is given by the catalogue of his posthumous sale at Christies April 1886, and it is currently being researched by Oliver Garnett. Graham owned a number of works by Rossetti. When they came onto the market, in 1874 and 1885 respectively, Graham grasped the opportunity and bought his two Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood oils, 'Ecce Ancilla Domini' (1850) and 'The Girlhood of Mary Virgin' (1849) both now in the Tate Gallery. He also commissioned the large 'Dante's Dream', although this ultimately proved too big for his London House. Graham regarded the present drawing with particular affection, writing to Rossetti in 1879, 'I must add one line to say how much I was charmed with the "Donna della Finestra" which I look at as one of your most successful single figures'. The second owner of the drawing, Major C.S. Goldman, was Burne-Jones's neighbour in Rottingdean in the 1890s.

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