Painting About The Crown Of Love #shorts #art

#shorts #art #painting #museum Hi everyone, let’s unframe The Crown of Love, painted by John Everett Millais in 1875. This artwork traces its inspiration back to one of the oldest love stories in medieval literature, The Two Lovers by Marie de France, written in the 12th century. In Marie’s tale, a king, unable to part from his daughter after the death of his wife, sets an impossible challenge for her suitors: any man who wishes to marry her must carry her to the top of a high mountain without resting. Many try and fail, until one young nobleman succeeds in winning her heart. She loves him too, but refuses to elope out of loyalty to her father. Hoping to help him, she sends him to her aunt, who gives him a potion to restore his strength. When the day comes, the princess starves herself to become lighter, and he begins the climb with her in his arms. He refuses to drink the potion, determined to prove his love by his own strength. But near the summit, he collapses and dies of exhaustion, and she dies beside him from grief. When the king discovers their bodies, he faints in sorrow, and they are buried together on the mountain, forever remembered as The Mountain of the Two Lovers. Centuries later, George Meredith retold this same story in his poem The Crown of Love in the 1800s, which then inspired John Everett Millais to paint this scene in 1875.