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《拉弥亚》(Lamia)

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《拉弥亚(Lamia)》
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画作名称:
Lamia
中文名称:
拉弥亚
画 家:
约翰·威廉·沃特豪斯(John Waterhouse)
作品年份:
1905 年
原作材质:
布面油画
画作尺寸:
144.7 x 90.2 cm
馆藏链接:
奥克兰美术馆(Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki)
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 Early in his career Waterhouse painted Graeco-Roman subjects in the manner of Alma-Tadema. However, he was later drawn to the romantic Pre-Raphaelite style, painting the Arthurian legends popularised by poets such as Tennyson. Lamia (a second version painted in 1905 is privately owned in London) was inspired by Keats' celebrated poem of 1820, about a bridegroom who discovers on his wedding night that his bride is a monstrous half-serpent who preys on young men. As such, she is a classic femme fatale. The only visual clue to Lamia's nature is the moulted snake-skin draped about her.

 

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 Early in his career John Waterhouse had painted Graeco-Roman subjects in the manner of Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Before developing a passion for the romantic Pre-Raphaelite style, particularly the Arthurian legends popularised by poets such as Lord Alfred Tennyson.

 Lamia was inspired by John Keats’s celebrated poem of 1820. Set in the wild hills of ancient Greece during an ‘evening dim at moth time’, the poem speaks of a young charioteer who hearing a soft voice calling – ‘a maid more beautiful than [any] ever with twisted braid’ – falls inextricably in love with her. He is unaware that this vision is in reality a monstrous half-serpent, who metamorphoses into a woman’s form to prey on young men.

 The intensity of the young knight’s gaze draws the viewer into Waterhouse’s painting, Lamia kneels below him, one hand on his and the other resting on his armplate, the only visual clue to her nature captured in the glimmering moulted snake-skin draped about her, its peacock tinges drawn from Keat’s description.

 

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