Arthurian Images
The Arthurian legends have been an inspiration to artists for centuries.
These pages try to show some of the variety of interpretations, in images rather than words.
(Click on the images for larger size and better quality)
Medieval section
Iwein at the magical fountain
Rodenegg Castle mural, ca. 1200
Chertsey tile
(Loomis identifies it as "Porter opens to Roald" but adds
a question mark)
ca. 1270
Winchester Round Table,
between 1250 and 1280
From: The Book of Lancelot du Lac, 1280
Ms.
229, Beinecke Rare Book & and Manuscript library
Yale University, New Haven
Sir Percival and two other knights
with the Holy Grail
Percival manuscript, 1286
© Bettman Archive
Amsterdam, Biblioteca Philosophica Hermetica MS 1, ii, f. 140,
Lancelot-Graal, The First Kiss
© Alison Stones
Lancelot Compilatie, 1320
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag
Tristan despatches the Dragon
Schloss Runkelstein mural, late 14th century
Galahad and Lancelot,
15th century (?)
19th century section
Queen Guinevere (also
called La Belle Iseult)
William Morris, 1858
Nimue
???
"I am half sick of shadows" said
the lady of Shalott
J. W. Waterhouse, 1860
La mort D'Arthur (most of it anyway)
James Archer, 1860
Galahad
Watts, 1860
Morgan le Fay
Frederick Sandys, 1862-63
Vivien
Frederick Sandys, 1863
How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival
were fed with the Sanc Grael, bur Sir Percival's sister died by the Way
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1864
Malwine Schnorr von Carolsfeld
The first to play Isolde in Wagner's
Tristan und Isolde, 1865
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld
The first to play Tristan in
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, 1865
The beguiling of Merlin
Edward Burne Jones, 1874
The last sleep of Arthur in Avalon
Edward Burne Jones, 1881-91
Parsifal
Jean Delville, 1882
The Attainment of the Holy Grail
Stanmore Hall Tapestry,
Edward Burne Jones, 1898-99
The lady of Shalott
John William Waterhouse, 1887-88
20th century section
Sir Bors sees the child Galahad
William Ernest Chapman, 1908
The marriage of Arthur and Guinevere
???
Tristan and Isolde
Waterhouse, 1916
Elaine
Edward Reginald Frampton, ???
Prince Valiant
Harold Foster, 1937-71
From the movie Perceval le Gallois
Eric Rohmer, 1979
Hildegard Behren as Isolde and
Yvonne Mintonn as Brangaine
in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Munich, 1980
Lancelot and Arthur,
in the movie Excalibur
Joh Boorman, 1981
Dame du Lac
cover from Marion Bradley's The mists of Avalon, 1982
design: Braldt Brads (?)
Guinevere
in the comic book Camelot 3000
M. W. Barr and B. Bolland, 1982-4
King Arthur Pendragon (?)
role playing game (?)
Greg Stafford, 1985 (?)
The Transformation of Tristan and Isolde into the chalice of their
love potion
Stained glass animation (moving
gif image)
Oleg Bychkov, (?)
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