#table lamps

I love lamps

French Art Deco table lamp, designed by Eugène Gaillard and produced by Max Le Verrier, circa 1920s.

Early 20th century bronze and glass bat lamps from Austria

1903

In an Irish House, 1988

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The subject of one of Collier's earliest 'Problem Pictures' The Garden of Armida was based upon the epic Italian poem by Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata of 1581. Tasso told of a Christian warrior Rinaldo and a pagan sorceress named Armida who lives in an enchanted garden in Syria where she holds crusaders captive preventing them from following their noble quests. Collier modernized the subject by depicting a young gentleman in contemporary evening dress, surrounded by a bevy of beautiful women carousing with glasses of wine at an al fresco banquet in the forest. He appears to be caught between temperance and the temptations of hedonism but is stoic in his resolve to resist the charms of the girls. The subject is similar to the temptation of St. Anthony, Venus and Tannhauser, Ulysses and Circe in which women were cast as seductresses aiming to corrupt a virtuous modern-day hero. The roses on the table suggest that the women's promises are amorous whilst the armlet in the shape of a serpent suggests sinister intent and connects the subject with that of Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden.