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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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King Arthur in the legends, art and film here: King Arthur, the stuff of future memory

For more Arthurian images, go to: Tristan stained glass windows

 
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