Apr 28
Fiammetta Singing
Artist: Marie Spartali Stillman (British, 1844–1927)
Date: 1879
Medium: Pencil, watercolor and gouache paint
Collection: Private Collection
Description
Marie Stillman's watercolour takes its subject from Giovanni Boccaccio's Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta – a monologue describing the jealousy and distress of a woman in love, and how in the first place she had ignored the warnings of the gods which had come to her in a dream, and how later on and following her infatuation with a young Florentine called Panfilo she had been visited in her imagination by the goddess Venus who expounded to her on the familiar pattern of love affairs, whether between gods or mortals.
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