Study for Stained Glass Beatrice and Dante

#5360, Photographed by Kelly & Massa, 2017

Name/Title

Study for Stained Glass "Beatrice and Dante"

Entry/Object ID

5360

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Edith Emerson, Philadelphia

Notes

Date: August 1982 Credit Line: Bequest of Edith Emerson Means of Accession: Bequest

Made/Created

Artist

Violet Oakley

Date made

circa 1904 - 1905

Place

City

Philadelphia

State

Pennsylvania

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Dimensions

Height

18-1/2 in

Width

21-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

Framed: 25x27 in; H, W: 18 1/2x21 1/2 in

Height

18-1/2 in

Width

21-1/2 in

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

This is a study for a stained-glass window depicting a scene from Dante’s epic poem “Divine Comedy,” where Beatrice guides Dante to the First Heaven of the Moon in the book “Paradiso.”