Perceval’s sister dies to save the life of a lady, Lancelot achieves the grail, then Galahad, Bors and Perceval do, but only one of them lives to tell the tale.
Burne-Jones
Trained in London, Italy and France, he combined a Pre-Raphaelite style from Burne-Jones with Symbolism of Puvis de Chavannes.
Lancelot is tricked into getting Elaine pregnant with Galahad. When grown up, Galahad is knighted and welcomed to the Round Table in time for a vision of the Holy Grail and the start of the quest.
Pegasus, and the confusion over whether Perseus ever rode him, a hippogriff from Orlando Furioso, and a black winged horse ridden by a valkyrie.
Tristram and Isode soon became lovers, and King Mark flew into a rage. Tristram escaped death, then became mad. After they were reconciled, Mark murdered the knight.
How Merlin became trapped in an enchanted cavern, and how King Arthur was nearly killed in a plot by his sister, Morgan le Fay.
Once popular in wall paintings and miniatures across Europe, these legends were revived in the nineteenth century and adopted by the Pre-Raphaelites.
Byron, no stranger to forbidden love, swam across the Dardanelles in 1810, retracing the strokes of the legendary Leander who died trying to reach his lover Hero.
Inscriptions in paintings that reveal the story, or quote from its literary source, from Rembrandt to the Pre-Raphaelites.
Zeus comes up with a plan to reduce the number of mortals, and completes one of the first two steps, marrying Thetis to a mortal. And what a wedding feast, thanks to Eris.
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