This artwork, called "Dantis Amore," was originally planned to be a central panel of a triptych for William Morris. The central figure is this painting is Love holding a sundial. In the upper left hand side is a portrait of Christ looking down through the starry cosmos at the face of Beatrice, Rossetti's beloved wife who died earlier that year, painted within a crescent moon on the lower right. For anyone who wants to read more, there is a moving description of the meaning of this painting in the Rossetti archive.