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Dante’s Dream

Dante’s Dream. Alissa Westmoreland. Replicating. The Royal Academy and the Burlington Club “Replication was commonplace in the centuries leading up to and including the nineteenth century.” “…a sign of technical and imaginative shortfall.” Replications done by assistants?.

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Dante’s Dream

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  1. Dante’s Dream Alissa Westmoreland

  2. Replicating • The Royal Academy and the Burlington Club • “Replication was commonplace in the centuries leading up to and including the nineteenth century.” • “…a sign of technical and imaginative shortfall.” • Replications done by assistants?

  3. Versions of Dante’s Dream • Left pic. • Charcoal drawing • Depicts only the apparently mourning figure • Right hand in different position than original • Right pic. • Chalk drawing with red, black, and white • Depicts right hand maid

  4. Mourning figure in black • “Kissing person” a female in red and holding needle • Mourning figure walking • Season may be fall • Watercolor / oil • Mourning figure in black and red • “Kissing person” female and in blue and holding arrows • Mourning figure standing flat • Season may be spring • Watercolor / oil

  5. Why replicate? • "I have often said that to be an artist is just the same thing as to be a whore, as far as dependence on the whims and fancies of individuals is concerned…” • "I have been doing a replica here (of that Beatrice) - a beastly job, but lucre was the lure"

  6. Bibliography • http://www.lib.utexas.edu:8331/V/RD2L7X6TYXQ9D5PYBXQIDIEFAI1HIRG1987SVT8FG4TKIA8JRJ-32549?func=quick-3-previous&set-entry=000002 • http://members.tripod.com/preraphs/images/dgrossetti/dantesdream1.jpg • http://www.intofineart.com/admin/images/new8/Dante%20Gabriel%20Rossetti-766929.jpg • http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/PRB/DGR/DantesDream.jpg

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