Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane
| Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane | |
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| Artist | Henry Fuseli |
| Year | 1824 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 183.5 cm × 153 cm (72.2 in × 60 in) |
| Location | Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurt |
Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane is an oil on canvas painting by Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, from 1824. It is held at the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, in Frankfurt, since 1957.[1]
Description
The painting depicts a scene from Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene in which the female knight Britomart frees Amoretta, a beautiful woman, from her captivity at the hands of Busirane, an evil sorcerer. In Fuseli's painting, Britomart is swinging her sword as if about to kill Busirane, who is held in the ground, but in the poem, Amoretta stops Britomart from slaying the sorcerer, as he is the only one who can break the magic which is holding her captive.[2]
See also
- Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret, an 1833 painting by William Etty depicting the same scene
References
- ^ Perels 1994, p. 42.
- ^ Drama und Theater 2018, p. 207.
Sources
- Perels, Christoph (1994). "Das Frankfurter Goethe-Museum. Vom Gedenkzimmer zur Galerei der Goethezeit". Das Frankfurter Goethe-Museum zu Gast im Städel (in German). Mainz: Verlag Hermann Schmidt. pp. 8–17. ISBN 3-87439-311-9.
- "Katalogtexte". Füssli - Drama und Theater (in German). Italy: Prestel. 2018. ISBN 978-3-7913-5757-7.