Despair Gallery

Rime of the Ancient Mariner - sails made

Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore of a scene from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, It ceased; yet still the sails made on, a pleasant noise till noon. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. 1882

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Le Coup de Lance, 1620. Artist: Peter Paul Rubens

Le Coup de Lance, 1620. At the Crucifixion the soldier pierces Christ's side to make sure he is dead. At bottom right, the Virgin Mary and St John the Apostle turn aside in despair. From the Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium

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The Sicilian Vespers, 1846 (oil on canvas)

703017 The Sicilian Vespers, 1846 (oil on canvas) by Hayez, Francesco (1791-1882); Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Lazio, Italy; (add.info.: The Sicilian Vespers was a rebellion in Sicily in 1282 against the rule of French king Charles I. Thousands of French men and women were killed by the rebels, triggering a twenty year war which would divide the Kingdom of Sicily.)

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