Oct 17, 2024
Three Sisters, Scotland
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Three Sisters, Scotland
Inferno (c.1550) - Herri met de Bles (c.1510–after 1550)
Crazy Maria
Artist: Angelica Kauffman (Swiss, 1741-1807)
Date: After 1777
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Description
The painting depicts an episode from Laurence Sterne's popular novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published in 1768. The narrator is the traveler Pastor Yorick, who meets a girl named Maria, driven mad by unrequited love. Kauffmann depicts the meeting between Yorick and Maria faithfully as described. The pastor and the girl sit facing each other on rocks, against a panoramic landscape. Maria hands him a handkerchief, reminding her of her lover. Yorick looks at her sympathetically, holding this precious relic in his hands.
The book follows the genre conventions of a travel narrative, with a playful and fragmented writing style. A key theme is the interconnected nature of sympathy and sexual desire, which both inspire strong pro-social feelings. Analysis of the book often seeks to answer whether its depictions of extreme emotion are meant to be serious, or whether Yorick is an unreliable narrator intended to mock the eighteenth-century culture of sensibility.
Far Horizons
© 2023, James Blatter
Overlooking the Ocean (on Flickr) by Marisa Renee
Photo No.1- Penzance and St Michael's Mount
Photo No.2- On the way to St Buryan
Three separate images I created into a panoramic landscape for my Books and Images class.