Daniel Gabriel Rossetti - 'The Blessed Damozel'
Symbolism
  Unlike Hunt,
whose Christianity was solidly Protestant, Rossetti
had a highly personal view of Christian cosmology which blended myth and
legend from classical and medieval sources with a more Catholic Christian
symbolism. Thus the lilies which are Christian attributes of purity seem
to hold little significance in being three in number, beyond the fact
that the number three, like seven, is of ancient mystical and magical
importance. Again the seven stars (unlike those that appear in Hunt's
frame for 'The Scapegoat')
do not have any apparent significance.
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