#literary theme

[preraphaelitepaintings]

In the Golden Days

Artist: John Melhuish Strudwick (British, (1849-1937)

Date: 1907

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

The title of this painting, In the Golden Days, is taken from Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King:

'How sad it were for Arthur, should he live, To sit once more within the lonely hall, And miss to hear high talk of noble deeds As in the golden days before thy sin.'

~ Tennyson, Idylls of the King

[artemlegere]

Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere

Artist: James Archer (British, 1823-1904)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection, USA

[mythologypaintings]

'The Triumph of Mercy,' from Collins' 'Ode To Mercy'

Artist: William Artaud (English, 1763–1823) Formerly attributed to George Romney (English, 1734–1802)

Date: 1788-1790

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

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[beifongkendo]

Small House near a Waterfall, by Izuno Gizan (ca. 1900).

[artemlegere]

The Lady of Shalott

Artist: Walter Crane (English, 1845–1915)

Date: 1782

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for british Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

The popular poet Alfred Tennyson first published his ballad of the Lady of Shalott in 1833. It told the tale of a Lady confined to a tower, where she must weave a magic web without pause. Her view of the outside world was confined to the reflections in a mirror, and a curse would come upon her if she stopped and looked directly at the world. Walter Crane represents her tragic end. Tempted to look out of the window by her love for Sir Lancelot, the curse took effect and she died singing in her boat, floating down river to Camelot in search of her love.

[artemlegere]

Valentine Rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave

Artist: Francis Wheatley (English, 1747–1801)

Date: 1792

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

Francis Wheatley’s Valentine Rescuing Silvia from Proteus from 1792 shows Valentine at the right, sword in hand, interceding as Silvia struggles against Proteus. Behind them is Julia disguised as the page Sebastian.

[artemlegere]

Astraea Leaving the Earth

Artist: Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)

Date: ca. 1665

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria

Description

According to the Roman poet Virgil, Astraea, the goddess of justice, is the last of the gods to leave the corrupted earth at the end of the Iron Age, the age of complete decay of culture and morals. She leaves her attributes, the fasces (bundle of rods) and scales, to the just and peaceful peasants. This characteristically Baroque mixture of literature and symbolism expressed both pessimism and hope for renewal. Since ancient times, the simplicity of peasant life has been seen as a herald of this hope for happy, golden times.