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The Pre-Raphaelites and “The Lady of Shalott ”

The Pre-Raphaelites and “The Lady of Shalott ”. Note: For best results, play this presentation in conjunction with Loreena McKennitt’s “The Lady of Shalott ” as audio accompaniment. The Pre-Raphaelites were a radical group of Victorian painters founded in 1848.

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The Pre-Raphaelites and “The Lady of Shalott ”

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  1. The Pre-Raphaelites and “The Lady of Shalott” Note: For best results, play this presentation in conjunction with LoreenaMcKennitt’s “The Lady of Shalott” as audio accompaniment.

  2. The Pre-Raphaelites were a radical group of Victorian painters founded in 1848. They challenged artistic conventions of form and composition. Their paintings were highly symbolic and lush in detail, beauty, and color. “Ophelia,” by John Everett Millais “Flaming June,” by Frederic Leighton

  3. The Pre-Raphaelites’ subjects were wide-ranging. Some subjects were religious; others secular.

  4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti “Beata Beatrix”

  5. “The Scapegoat” William Holman Hunt, 1854

  6. The medieval period was quite popular…

  7. “Stitching the Standard” Edmund Blair-Leighton

  8. …as was Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Arthurian poem “The Lady of Shalott.” The Pre-Raphaelites identified with the Lady as an artist: Trapped in a tower, the Lady is “cursed” to see the world only through an enchanted mirror. She works her vision of the world into her art.

  9. “The Lady of Shalott” By William Holman Hunt

  10. And thus, as an artist, though she sees the world… She is forever separate from it.

  11. “The Lady of Shalott” John Sidney Meteyard, 1913

  12. Though it reveals the world to her… …the mirror is a screen between herself … and reality.

  13. “I Am Half-Sick of Shadows” John William Waterhouse

  14. One day, driven to look directly through her window, she sees a sight that changes her forever: Lancelot, the bravest of Arthur’s knights… and the castle of Camelot behind him.

  15. The Lady of Shalott Sees Lancelot John William Waterhouse, 1894

  16. “The Accolade” Edmund Blair-Leighton

  17. The sight of Camelot brings the full force of the Lady’s curse upon her. The Lady is doomed from that moment.

  18. …unmediated by her art or the mirror… The encounter with the real world… …will end her life.

  19. Her mirror cracks from side to side… Desperate and dying, she writes her name on the prow of a boat… …and she feels the curse come upon her.

  20. “The Lady of Shalott” By John William Waterhouse

  21. …and floats to Camelot, the place that has always been forbidden to her.

  22. John Atkinson Grimshaw “The Lady of Shalott,” 1878

  23. …To those at Camelot, the Lady of Shalott is largely an unreadable text. By the time she arrives there, she is dead. They have no idea who she is.

  24. “The Lady of Shalott” Arthur Hughes, 1873

  25. …Lancelot, unaware he is a central cause of her death, can only reflect that she has a lovely face… …and pray that God in his mercy sends her grace.

  26. “The Lady of Shalott” John Atkinson Grimshaw

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