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I’ve had a painting crush on Bocklin since I was, like, ten years old.  Here he is illustrating Boiardo’s unfinished Orlando Furioso (hence my pen name, see?) in whic Boiardo rips off the Andromeda myth.  Angelica, the princess of Cathay, gets chained to a rock where she’s going to be eaten by a sea dragon.  Ruggerio, the African knight, rescues her and gives her a ring of invisibility (which Tolkein would later steal from Boiardo).  It’s a big scene in part because it’s one of the few European romances that has non-European characters as well as European ones, with inter-racial matchups.  (Angelica ultimately winds up with…ummm…Medoro, but he’s black, too.) I kind of like the dragon’s expression.  He looks like my cat. reblololo: Arnold Bocklin - Ruggiero befreit Angelica (1879-80)

I’ve had a painting crush on Bocklin since I was, like, ten years old.  Here he is illustrating Boiardo’s unfinished Orlando Furioso (hence my pen name, see?) in whic Boiardo rips off the Andromeda myth.  Angelica, the princess of Cathay, gets chained to a rock where she’s going to be eaten by a sea dragon.  Ruggerio, the African knight, rescues her and gives her a ring of invisibility (which Tolkein would later steal from Boiardo).  It’s a big scene in part because it’s one of the few European romances that has non-European characters as well as European ones, with inter-racial matchups.  (Angelica ultimately winds up with…ummm…Medoro, but he’s black, too.)

I kind of like the dragon’s expression.  He looks like my cat.

reblololo:

Arnold Bocklin - Ruggiero befreit Angelica (1879-80)

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8 February 2012 • reblog: reblololo • dragon angelica race blood decapitation oil painitng bocklin late 1800s armor