The Eve of Saint Agnes 圣艾格尼斯前夜
Painting Date: 1863
Medium: Unknown
Size: Unknown
Location: Unknown
如同黑白照片,单色画往往更能使人感动。这幅作品也是这样,单色创造出神秘的幽静的气氛。令人看时不禁屏住呼吸。
The Crown of Love 爱之冕
Painting Date: 1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 127.6 x 86.7 cm (50 1/4 x 34 1/4 in)
Location: Unknown
梅瑞狄斯(George Meredith)的这首诗完美的诠释了这幅画:
'O, might I load my arms
with thee,
Like that young lover of
Romance,
Who loved and gain'd so
gloriously
The fair Princess of France.
Because he dared to love so
high.
He, bearing her dear weight,
must speed
To where the mountain
touch'd the sky.
So the proud king decreed
Unhalting he must bear her
on,
Nor pause a space to gather
breath,
and on the height she would
be won:
And she was won in death'