The first of two looking at the telling of English legends in paintings: Robin Hood and his ‘Merry Men’, popular for the last 500 years.
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Telling stories visually is necessarily explicit. How then do you tell the story of a serial murderer who hangs the bodies of his victims in a cupboard, to young children?
Using composite notes and included text to pull together content from existing notes, and displaying chosen content in a timeline.
A new hypertext combining Tennyson’s poetry and superb paintings from those associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Free to download.
Two different legends about Sir Lancelot and a woman falling in love with him. Both are told here with a selection of fine paintings.
Are these beautiful paintings of women and children just eye-candy for middle-class Victorian women?
An index to the 7 well-known narratives of non-European origin, covered in articles here. Currently Indian.
Covers 35 well-known narratives from books, plays, movies, poems, and other literary sources, with example paintings for each.
Beautiful painterly works showing Arthurian and classical legends, in the years before the First World War.
An outstanding overview of legendary places, from paradise to Utopia. Is the new paperback edition a good choice, though?
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