Keywords: La-Bella-Mano.jpg Artwork Creator Dante Gabriel Rossetti «Rossetti completed the sonnet entitled La Bella Mano a year after the painting suggesting the visual representation may have been the inspiration for the poem The painting represents a personification of love �Venus assisted by her winged attendants The canvas is rich in details all contributing to the theme of love �both spiritual and earthly �as represented in the central figure The effect of a halo is created by the convex mirror showing the bed which entices a present or future lover » see references 1875 Oil on canvas cm 157 5 116 8 <br /> frame cm 193 152 4 Institution Delaware Art Museum place of discovery object history exhibition history credit line Samuel and Mary R Bancroft Memorial 1935 accession number 1935-25 place of creation Delaware Art Museum Delart~commonswiki Delaware Art Museum Rosetti-la bella mano JPG Bella-mano jpg http //emuseum delart org 8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/items 0040 484 <br /> http //www delart org/collections/british-pre-raphaelites/la-bella-mano/ cc-by-sa-3 0 GFDL PD-old-auto-1923 1882 DEFAULTSORT Rossetti La Bella Mano Paintings of females by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Aphrodite in post-antique paintings Females with red dresses in art People with mirrors in art Paintings in Delaware Art Museum 1875 paintings Paintings of the toilet of Venus |