The Flight of Florimell
| The Flight of Florimell | |
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| Artist | Washington Allston |
| Year | 1819 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 91.4 cm × 71.1 cm (36.0 in × 28.0 in) |
| Location | Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan |
The Flight of Florimell is an 1819 oil painting by the American artist Washington Allston. It depicts a scene from The Faerie Queene by the Elizabethan Era English poet Edmund Spenser.[1][2] Romantic in style, it is distinctly Gothic in tone with a frightened heroine being pursued on horseback.[3]
Today the painting is in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan, having been acquired in 1944.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Salmon p.12
- ^ Palmer p. 23
- ^ Carson p.39
- ^ https://dia.org/collection/flight-florimell-24438
Bibliography
[edit]- Carson, Kerry Dean. American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature. University of Wales Press, 2014.
- Palmer, Allison Lee. Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
- Salmon, Robin B. Brookgreen Gardens. Arcadia, 2006.