At base this correspondence is mysterious for Rossetti, as for Dante, and light with the color red serves as its symbol, almost tangibly in Beata Beatrix. “The correspondence of enlightenment, a raising of the soul, and a spiritual beatitude through love (even of a physical nature) for a beautiful woman is obvious.
Ronald Johnson comments on the parallels between Rosetti’s Beata Beatrix and Dante Alighieri’s The New Life ( La Vita nuova, 1295): Johnson, “Dante Rossetti’s Beata Beatrix and the New Life,” The Art Bulletin, vol. She sees through her shut lids, is conscious of a new world, as expressed in the last words of the Vita nuova… ‘That blessed Beatrice who now gazeth continually on His Countenance who is blessed throughout all ages.”Ĭited in Ronald W. You will remember how much Dante dwells on the desolation of the city in connection with the incident of her death, and for this reason I have introduced it, as my background, and made the figure of Dante and Love passing through the street and gazing ominously on one another, conscious of the event, whilst the bird, a messenger of death, drops a poppy between the hands of Beatrice. “It must of course be remembered, in looking at the picture, that it is not at all intended to represent Death…but to render it under the resemblance of a trance, in which Beatrice seated at the balcony over-looking the City is suddenly rapt from Earth to Heaven. Cowper-Temple, Rossetti explained Beata Beatrix :
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