#Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE LEGEND OF QUEEN ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE -- IN PRE-RAPHAELITE FORM.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1332x1815 -- Spotlight on an 1858 oil-on-canvas painting titled "Queen Eleanor" by Pre-Raphaelite artist Frederick Sandys (1829-1904) which depicts Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, the wife of King Henry II of England, on her way to poison her husband's mistress, Rosamund Clifford. The painting is displayed at the National Museum Cardiff, Wales, UK, which obtained it in 1981.

LEGEND/SIGNIFICANCE OF PAINTING: "The traditional story recounts that King Henry concealed his affair from Queen Eleanor by conducting it within the innermost recesses of a complicated maze. Queen Eleanor penetrated the labyrinth while trailing a red cord, shown in the subject's left hand, and forced her rival to choose between a dagger and the bowl of poison. Rosamund chose the poison, and died."

-- WIKIPEDIA

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Eleanor_(painting).

[nature-and-culture]

Iris, by Frederick Sandys

Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (born Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands) (1 May 1829 – 25 June 1904), but usually known as Frederick Sandys, was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter, illustrator and draughtsman, of the Victorian era