Cupid gets revenge on Apollo by making him fall in love with Daphne, and she refusing to co-operate. The result is her being transformed into the laurel.
Waterhouse
From Delacroix’s final Shipwreck off a Coast, through Aivazovsky’s Ninth Wave, to Waterhouse’s painting of The Tempest.
From his conception in an adulterous deception arranged by Merlin, and drawing a sword from an anvil, to his death following wounds inflicted by the dying Mordred.
The visions of Joan of Arc painted by Jules Bastien-Lepage, the American Gari Melchers, Odilon Redon, John William Waterhouse, and others.
Cursed to be confined to weaving images on her loom and forbidden from looking directly at the outside world, she breaks that to look at Sir Lancelot.
Waiting the knight’s end, watching a sorceress, flying over a wheat field, or in front of a sleigh. Wherever they go they seem sinister.
A tragedy with a happy outcome, painted by Waterhouse, Kauffman, Paulus Bor, Delacroix, Maurice Denis and Lovis Corinth.
Saying it with flowers from the Pre-Raphaelites, scattering opium poppies, drowning with forget-me-nots, and choosing between camellias and violets.
Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, Gadarene swine, Sant Anthony, and in portraits: everything to see about pigs and their swineherds.
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.
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