King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid, by Edward Burne-Jones, 1884
That's it. Very simple, very sweet, nobody dies or suffers horribly. Nothing like the story I'm writing then, in fact...
;-)
Actually one of the reasons I really like this picture is because of the bloke. There are comparitively few male subjects in Victorian mythological painting, which is heavily focused on the female form. This is, off the top of my head, the only one where I look at the man and think "Oh - he's hot." Also I like the thought of him sitting round on the steps in field-plate.
Another (and sadly blander)Victorian treatment of the same story, by Edmund Blair Leighton:
5 comments:
I like the symbolism in the Edward Burne-Jones painting and the adoration on his face as he sits below her looking up.
Yes - he's so obviously smitten, isn't he? My what a big sword he's got between his thighs ... but he's taken his crown off. A candidate for the Male Submission Art site, I think!
He's certainly rocking his cheekbones.
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i can only say that i m with craig and his opinion about the adoration on his face...ach those evil heartbreaking women who enchain us:-)
Oh, you love being enchained - admit it.
;-)
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