The Corydon Shepherd, those attending the Nativity, the Good Shepherd, Poussin’s flocks, Millet’s social realism, and Pissarro’s epitaphs.
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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.
Loyal unto death, dogs as companions to knights, bored Venetian ladies, successful artists, royalty, nude women, and Marthe Bonnard.
Dogs guarding the underworld, attributes of Diana, discovering Tyrian purple, gathering scraps under the Last Supper, and telling part of the story.
Sir Tristram and La Beale Isode, or Tristan and Isolde, fall in love and exchange rings. His uncle, King of Cornwall, sends Tristram to bring Isolde back to be his queen.
Paintings from Rembrandt’s second version to Cézanne and Franz von Stuck show the triumph of privileged male power.
Paintings of this story from Hans Memling to the first of Rembrandt’s show Bathsheba bathing in the foreground while the king looks on as voyeur.
Although not featured in classical myths, cats have several symbolic associations and their own fables. From a kept woman to a harem, and basking in the sunshine.
Sir Lancelot joined the Knights of the Round Table shortly before King Arthur defeated the emperor of Rome. He was then abducted by Morgan le Fay.
Stories from Dante’s ‘Inferno’, the daughter of Jephthah, Phaedra, Ophelia, and Cleopatra, on the theme of the doomed woman.
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