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| Keywords: Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Monna Vanna.jpg Artwork Creator Dante Gabriel Rossetti Monna Vanna 1866 Oil on canvas support cm 88 9 86 4 <br /> frame cm 129 0 116 8 9 2 Institution Tate Britain Not on display place of discovery object history exhibition history credit line Purchased with assistance from Sir Arthur Du Cros Bt and Sir Otto Beit KCMG through the Art Fund 1916 Alexa Wilding <br /> 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 Rossetti considered the painting to be one of his best works and declared it «probably the most effective as a room decoration that I have ever painted» <br /> In 1873 Rossetti retouched the picture lightening the hair and altering the rings which had been criticised for their clashing colours He also changed the title to Belcolore believing that the subject looked too modern for its previous title Despite this the painting continued to be known as Monna Vanna It was first owned by the Cheshire collector W Blackmore who also owned Fazio's Mistress Tate N03055 and later passed into the hands of George Rae of Birkenhead one of Rossetti's most important patrons see references accession number N03054 place of creation http //www nationalmuseum se/sv/Om-Nationalmuseum/For-press-och-media1/Pressbilder1/Prerafaeliterna/Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-iMonna-Vannai/ Dead link Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Monna Vanna - WGA20107 jpg N03054 PD-old-auto-1923 1882 Paintings of females by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Alexa Wilding Dante Alighieri series by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Vita Nuova 1866 oil on canvas paintings Pre-Raphaelite paintings in Tate Britain | ||||
