Word: beata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beatrice, waiting to guide him. However, according to Pre-Raphaelite principles, it was necessary for Rossetti to square this vision of a women with the likeness of a living person. He found his answer in the person of Elizabeth Siddal, who was eventually to become his wife. Pictured in "Beata Beatrix" with the figures of Dante and Love behind her, Elizabeth Siddal eventually proved a less than ideal Madonna. Jealous of his work and diverting him from it by continual illness, she committed suicide after two years of marriage. Another woman soon replaced her; Rossetti became fascinated with Janie Morris...