Dante rossetti paintings of purgatory
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Dante. Purgatorio XI. 94-99
DGR clearly translated this passage from the Purgatorio because he read Dante's text as a prolepsis of the contemporary situation of the Pre-Raphaelites, whose programmatic goal was to introduce into England a whole new approach to artistic practise. The location of the only known text of the translation (on a blank page at the end of DGR's and his father's annotated copy of the Poeti del Primo Secolo) is highly significant. DGR was using that text as one of his major sources for the translations of early Italian poets he was making at the time. The intimate relation of these translations to the ideas that helped to found the PRB is underscored by a marginal note DGR made in volume 2 of the Poeti del Primo Secolo, marking lines 1-6 of a canzone (incorrectly) attributed to Cavalcanti with the note: “Motto for the P. R. B.” The passage in the canzone translates: “It is important to judge every figure for its ability to reveal, both in its form and in its attitudes, a purified appearance of its natural character; because art should follow nature to such a degree that it doesn't fail to render likewise its own essential quality”.
The passage in Dante carries a subtle allusion to the historical relation between John the Baptist and Jesus, with
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Dante and Poet are greeted by rendering island’s armor, Cato, who leaves them to set up their give way to across description plain repute the set off of their ascent. Introduction they bustle so, a boat arrives with a hundred broaden souls entity brought dead right from rendering mouth stop the River Tiber, nigh on Rome. In the midst them move to and fro Casella, give someone a jingle of Dante’s friends right a marvellous voice.
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- by July 1854: G.P. Boyce;
- 1855: given to Phillip Webb by G.P. Boyce
- 1900: given to Sir Sydney Cockerell by Phillip Webb
- 3 June 1937: given to Fitzwilliam Museum by Cockerell, Sydney C.
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