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"The Vision" by Edwin Austin Abbey "Sir Launcelot Beheld the Young squire and Saw
[The infant Galahad beholds the Grail.] Him Seemly and Demure as a Dove" by Edward Abbey
"Galahad being led to the Seige Perilous" by Edwin Austin Abbey
"Sir Galahad is brought to the Court of "How at the Castle of Corbin a Maiden
King Arthur" by Walter Crane. Bare in the Sangreal and Foretold
[Note the empty chair--the "seige perilous"-- the Achievements of Galahad"
on which Galahad's name magically appears.] by Arthur Rackham.
"Knights Summoned to Quest by a Strange Damsel" by E. C. Burnes-Jones
"Knightly Vows" by Edwin Austin Abbey
"Knights of the Round Table Departing on the Quest for the Holy Grail" by William Dyce
"Sir Galahad" by George Frederick Watts
The Castle of the Grail" by Edwin Austin Abbey
[Galahad silently witnesses the ailing King Amfortas and the Grail procession.]
"Galahad Battling the Seven Knights of Darkness" by Edwin Austin Abbey
[His conquest of the Seven Deadly Sins.]
"Castle of Maidens" by Edwin Austin Abbey
[The release of the Virtues imprisoned by the Knights of Darkness.]
"This girdle, lords," said she,"made for the most part of mine
own hair, which, while I was yet in the world, I loved full well"
by Lancelot Speed. [Galahad and Percival's Sister Amide/Dindrane]
"The Dream of Sir Lancelot at the Chapel of the Holy Grail"
by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
[An angel announces the failure of his quest due to his passion for Guinevere.]
"Sir Galahad" by Arthur Hughes
[The long quest of Galahad, Lancelot's son, is encouraged by supernatural beings.]
"Sir Galahad" by Arthur Hughes
"The Failure of Sir Gawain" by E. Burne-Jones and John Henry Dearle
"Knight of the Holy Grail" by Frederick Judd Waugh
[Galahad has a vision of the grail.]
"The Quest of the Grail" by Elizabeth Siddal.
Also known as "Sir Galahad at the Shrine of the Holy Grail"
"The Golden Tree and the Achievement of the Grail" by Edwin Austin Abbey
"The Attainment of the Sanc Grael" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
[The grail maiden holding the grail.]
"How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Percival Were Fed with the Sanc Grael,
but Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
[Bors and Percival share in the success of Galahad's grail quest.]
"Galahad and the Dying Amfortas" by Edwin Austin Abbey
"Passage of the Holy Grail to Sarras" by George Frampton
Links
More information on Galahad's Tales and Galahad.
Many links on the Holy Grail. To learn more about the Grail symbol, see the links at Part 4.
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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