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__NOTOC__ ''Mnemosyne'', also titled ''Lamp of Memory'' and ''Ricordanza'', is an oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti begun in 1875 or early 1876 and completed in 1881. Jane Morris was the model, and Frederick Richards Leyland bought the painting in 1881 and displayed it in his drawing room with five other Rossetti "stunners."〔''Waking Dreams'', p.206.〕 At about the same time Rossetti was painting ''Astarte Syriaca'', a larger painting completed in 1877, with Morris in a very similar pose. ==Painting== ''Mnemosyne'' began as an oil study for ''Astarte Syriaca'',〔Marsh (1987), p. 128〕 for which Jane Morris sat over the winter of 1875–1876,〔Marsh (1987), p. 130〕 but Rossetti later worked it up as an image of Mnemosyne, the Greek personification of Memory. Rossetti wrote to his mother about the two paintings on 29 April 1876: A month later Rossetti was considering ordering a frame for the painting and selling it to Clarence Fry.〔 Fry declined and in July 1876 Leyland advanced Rossetti 300 pounds for the painting, although he was concerned that the painting was too large for his drawing room. Rossetti did further work on the painting in 1879 and adjusted the frame in 1880, before delivering it to Leyland in 1881. It was one of Rossetti's last completed canvases.〔 Inscribed on the picture's frame is: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mnemosyne (Rossetti)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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