Certainly one of the most romantic paintings every created, "The Meeting on the Turret Stairs" was painted in 1864 by the renown Irish artist, Frederick William Burton, who is associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. It is in the National Irish Gallery and was voted the Irish public's favorite painting in 2012.
An expression of passion and longing, the painting is perfect for those whose hearts are full.
This is the tale of forbidden love: "The painting is an unusually large, lustrous watercolour from 1864 and derives from an exceptionally blood-spattered Danish ballad with echoes of the Whitney Houston–Kevin Costner blockbuster, The Bodyguard. The ballad relates how heroine Hellelil falls in love with her bodyguard, Hildebrand. Her disapproving father dispatches her seven brothers to kill him, but the tenacious Hildebrand kills her father and six of her brothers before she intercedes to save the life of the last. Hildebrand dies of his wounds and the heartbroken Hellelil also perishes. Burton imagines not the fearsome bloodshed but the lovers’ tender meeting on a turret stairs.--The Irish Times
Note the detail, how Hellelil's braid is tucked in her belt and the incredible medieval embroidery in Hildebrand's tunic.
The mesh object was given to a very kind SL resident, who found the perfect place in her castle. Note the interior photo by Misty Blackbart, an accomplished SL photographer.
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