HISTORY OF ART
Beata Beatrix
On 10 February 1862, Dante Gabriel Rossetti discovered his beloved wife and muse, Elizabeth Siddal, unconscious in bed, an empty bottle of laudanum at her side. Frantic and unable to rouse her, Rossetti summoned doctor after doctor, but to no avail: Siddal died the following morning. Distraught, he sought solace in his art, creating this romanticised image of his wife at the moment of her
