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Arundel Castle, Arundel, West Sussex, United Kingdom,
Jonathan James Wilson Photography
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William and Margaret from Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'
Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734–1797)
Date: ca. 1785
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Description
This painting represents the devastation wrought by the fickleness of youthful love. William, the man in bed, had given his lover Margaret cause to think they would marry, but the very next day she saw him marry another. She promptly died of grief. On William’s wedding night, Margaret appeared to him in a dream at the foot of his bed. She was dressed in her winding sheet (or burial cloth) to announce her death. William hastened to confirm his dream the next morning and, finding Margaret dead, died the same day stricken with remorse.
The tragic story comes from an ancient poem published in Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1766). As the poem says: “Fair Margaret dyed for pure true love, / Sweet William dyed for sorrow.”
Samson and Delilah
Artist: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, 1708-1787)
Date: 1788
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Description
Samson and Delilah portrays the crucial moment in the Old Testament narrative in which Delilah has clipped off the long locks of the Israelite warrior. At the urging of his rivals, the Philistines, Delilah had tricked Samson into revealing that his hair was the source of his superhuman strength. Still holding a pair of shears in one hand, she signals with the other toward the band of soldiers waiting to overpower the fallen hero. Known primarily for his portraits of wealthy British tourists abroad, Pompeo Batoni also produced history paintings such as this one, depicting moralizing subjects drawn from historical and religious sources. By the mid-1750s, his narrative paintings had become so costly that only the wealthiest visitors to Rome could afford them.
Biblical Narrative | Judges 16:18-20
Now when Delilah realized that he had confided to her all his heart, she sent and called for the Philistine lords saying, “Come up this time, for he has told me all his heart.” So the Philistine lords came up to her and brought the silver in their hand. Then she made him sleep upon her knees, and she called for a man and had the seven locks of his head shaved off. She even began to humiliate him while his strength departed from him. Then she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” When he awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I’ll go out as at other times, and shake myself off.” He did not comprehend that Adonai had departed from him.
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Bedchamber at Versailles. And that concludes my European Tour. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did taking them.
ISO 1000 | 18mm | f/3.5 | 1/5 sec Photo © 2017 Brian R. Fitzgerald (brfphoto.tumblr.com)
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