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Pia de' Tolomei (Rossetti painting)
''Pia de' Tolomei'' is an oil painting on canvas by English artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painted around 1868 and currently housed at the Spencer Museum of Art, on the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
==History==
This work was painted at the start of Rossetti's affair with Jane Morris, who modelled for the picture. As he was to do with ''Beata Beatrix'' (1870), Rossetti chose a tale by Dante Aligheri (from ''Purgatorio'') to illustrate his love for his model. The story tells of a woman whose husband imprisoned and later poisoned her:〔Cf. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy'', "Purgatorio", Canto V, vv.130-136 "Pia de' Tolomei". 〕 Rossetti wanted the world to believe the fantasy with which he was deluding himself - that William Morris kept Jane against her will. He continued this theme, as shown in ''Proserpine''.〔J. Treuherz, E. Prettejohn, and E. Becker. ''Dante Gabriel Rossetti''. London: Thames & Hudson (2003).〕
Rossetti not only drew Jane exhaustively, he also choreographed photographic sessions of her and used the photographs as preliminary sketches for drawings. Amongst other representations of her, Rossetti depicts Jane as Proserpine, Queen Guinevere and Desdemona - all of whom were at the mercy of men.〔V. Surtees. ''Dante Gabriel Rossetti''. Vol.I, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1971).〕
Jane appears disproportionately large in most of Rossetti's pictures. The background is immaterial as long as the viewer focuses on the beauty of her face. In ''Pia de' Tolomei'' her neck seems almost dislocated, it is so strangely elongated and the whiteness of her skin shines out, defying the viewer to pay attention to any other aspect of the painting. Strangely, Jane's hair colour is misrepresented here. Her natural colour was dark brown, yet Rossetti paints it with an auburn tinge - closer to Lizzie Siddal's hair colour than Jane's. Also, her hands are twisted and intertwined in a peculiar way.〔O. Doughty, ''A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti'' London: Frederick Muller (1949).〕
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