Jan 12
The Prisoner
Artist: Evelyn de Morgan (English, 1855-1919)
Date: 1907-1908
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: De Morgan Foundation, London, United Kingdom
Description
This is an allegory of the Soul, imprisoned in its mortal shell of the body, awaiting the release of death, to enable it to move to the light and immortality. This echoes the painter's Spiritualist belief that the body is merely an earthly shell, an encumbrance, which the spirit longs to cast off in death, to move into the sun of the spirit-spheres.
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