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"Queen of the Tournament" by Herbert Draper
[Guinevere and Lancelot]
"How Four Queens Found Sir Lancelot Sleeping" by William Frank Calderon
[Lancelot's fidelity to Guenivere is tested by four competing queens]
"Meeting on Turret Stairs" by Frederick Burton
[Not an image of Lancelot and Guenevere, but captures well the reality of their secret love.]
"Guinevere Scorns his Gift of Jewels" by Louis Rhead
"The Rescue of Guinevere" by William Hatherell
"How Sir Launcelot and His Kinsmen Rescued the
Queen from the Fire" by Sir William Russell Flint
"Lancelot Bears Off Guenevere" by H. J. Ford
"Lancelot and Queen Guinevere Kneeling before
the Throne of King Arthur" by Innes Fripp
"It was their last hour together" by Florence Harrison
"Lancelot and Guinevere's Parting Kiss" by George Wooliscroft and Louis Rhead
["And then they rode to the divided way, there kiss'd, and parted weeping."]
"None with Her Save a Little Maid, a Novice" by Jessie M. King
[Guenivere in the convent.]
"Queen Guinevere's Deathbed" by N. C. Wyeth
["Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed."]
"The Fight Amongst Sir Tristram and Sir Marhaus" "The Departure of Tristram and La Belle Isoude
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from Ireland" by Val Prinsep
"Tristan and Isolde" by John Duncan
[The star-crossed lovers drink the love potion. Their story rings
variations on the triangle of Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot.]
"Tristan and Isolde" by Herbert James Draper
"Tristan and Isolde" by Edmund Blair-Leighton
[A suspicious King Mark observes the lovers.]
"'Madam,' said Sir Tristram, 'This is a fair shield and
a mighty'"... by William Russell Flint
[Morgan le Fay's gift of a shield hints at the Guenivere-Lancelot adultery.]
"Tristan gave him such a buffet upon the helm with his sword that
King Arthur had no power to keep his saddle" by William Russell Flint
[Puzzled by the shield's meaning, King Arthur gets trounced by Sir Tristan at the tournament.]
"Sir Tristram Leaps into the Sea " by Howard Pyle
"The Madness of Sir Tristan" by Edward Burnes-Jones
"Sir Tristram and Queen Iseult" by Maria Spartali Stillman
[Tristram's dog recognizes his mad master.]
"How Sir Tristram being returned from Brittany into Cornwall,
fled again hence
and how La Belle Isoude would have slain herself
for his sake with the sword
had not King Mark been near and
prevented her and shut her up in a tower
" by Edward Burne-Jones
"The Death of Tristram" by Ford Madox Browne
[King Mark slays his wife's lover Tristram.]
"The Death of Tristram" by Marianne Stokes
"The Tomb of Tristram and Isolde" by Edward Burne-jones
"'I am half sick of shadows,' said the "Lancelot" by Howard Pyle
Lady of Shalott" by J. W. Waterhouse [The knight rides by the tower of Shalott.]
"The Lady of Shalott" by William Holman Hunt
[The Lady is cursed to view life--and Lancelot--
second-hand through her mirror and her art.]
"The Lady of Shalott" by J. W. Waterhouse
[Enamored of Sir Lancelot, the Lady leaves her tower
and floats, dying, down the river to Camelot.]
"Lady of Shalott" [arriving at Camelot] by G. E. Robertson
"Lancelot Gives his Shield to Elaine" "Elaine Guarding Lancelot's Shield"
by Arthur A. Dixon by Louis Rhead
"Elaine" by Herbert Gustav Schmalz
"Elaine" by Sophia Anderson
[Rejected by Lancelot, Elaine dies and floats down the river to Camelot.]
"Elaine" by Henry Wallis
Links
Information on Guinevere.
Read about the changing treatments of Guinevere, Celtic to Modern.
Discover the Celtic origins of the Arthurian Women.
Trace the similarities between Elaine of Astolet and the Lady of Shalott.
Bulfinch's Lady of Shalott (this is actually the Elaine of Astolat story).
Several versions summarized of the Tristan & Isolt love story.
Resources on "Arthurian Literature and Art": Celtic-Medieval and Victorian-Modern.
NOTE: Students should be advised that there is no one standard version of the King Arthur legends. This "Arthurian Legends Illustrated" represents an amalgam of different artists' views.
Painting, top of page: "Attainment of the Holy Grail" (tapestry) by E. C. Burne-Jones
File last updated: 1/04/12
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