Sponsa de Libano

Sponsa de Libano (The Bride of Lebanon) is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones dated 1891.

[1] "Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse ..."[2] "Awake, O north wind; and come thou south; blow upon my garden ..."[3] It may be relevant that at her appearance in Dante's Purgatorio Beatrice is accompanied by a group of female attendants singing Veni sponsa de Libano from the Song (Purgatorio, Canto XXX, line 12).

[4] The painting shows the bride walking in the garden with female personifications of the two winds blowing towards her.

[5] Sponsa de Libano forms part of the Victorian collection in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

The study is now held by the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Merseyside.