Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Roman Widow evokes an aura of solemn grace and introspective mourning, rendered with the poetic symbolism characteristic of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Draped in ochre-toned robes, the widow cradles a lyre adorned with pink blossoms, a tender emblem of remembrance and fragile beauty. Her gaze is mournful, distant—lost in reverie before the commemorative altar that bears a Roman inscription. Roses cascade beneath an eternal flame, suggesting the sanctity of love and the haunting persistence of loss. Rossetti elevates his muse to a mythic realm, blending classical mourning rituals with a dreamlike reverence for feminine melancholy and memory.