Other Artists
The Young Martyr by Paul Delaroche (French 1797-1856)
Saint George and the Dragon (1866-93) by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833-1898)
"I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than ever shone - in a land that no one can define or remember, only desire - and the forms divinely beautiful..."
--Burne-Jones, from a letter he wrote to a friend
The Beguiling of Merlin (1874) by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833-1898)
A storm was coming, but the winds were still
And in the wild woods of Broceliande
Before an oak, so hollow, huge and old...
At Merlin's feet the wily Vivien lay ...
lissome-limbed, she
Writhed towards him, slided up his knee and sat,
Behind his ankle twined her hollow feet
Together, curved an arm about his neck,
Clung like a snake.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), Idylls of the Kings, on how Vivian beguiled Merlin
The Accolade(1901) by Edmund Blair Leighton
The Young Martyr by Paul Delaroche (French 1797-1856)
Saint George and the Dragon (1866-93) by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833-1898)
The Beguiling of Merlin (1874) by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833-1898) 