Richard The Lionheart And Berengaria Of Navarre

Richard the Lionheart and Berengaria of Navarre

going my way?

my secret santa gift for @nothin-2c-here !! happy holidays and a very merry merry :)

“It is the mother’s not the lover’s lust that rots the mind. It is that which condemns the tragic character to his walking death. It is Jocasta, not Juliet, who dwells in the inner chamber. It is is Gertrude, not the silly Ophelia, who sends Hamlet to his madness. The heart of tragedy does not lie in stealing or taking away. Any feather-pated girl can steal a heart. It lies in giving, in putting on, in adding, in smothering without the pillows. Desdemona robbed of life or honour is nothing to a Mordred, robbed of himself–his soul stolen, overlaid, wizened, while the mother-character lives in triumph, superfluously and with stifling love endowed on him, seemingly innocent of ill-intention. Mordred was the only son of Orkney who never married. He, while his brothers fled to England, was the one who stayed alone with her for twenty years–her living larder. Now that she was dead, he had become her grave. She existed in him like the vampire.”

— T.H. White, The Candle in the Wind

Ah, love

More knights - top is based on Narcissus Changed into a Flower by Nicolas Bernard Lepicie, bottom is based on Ophelia by Jean Baptiste Bertrand.

Edit: My tablet resolution was so bad I didn't realize. You can see the painting now.

“You cling to me so—do you still trust me, after all this?”

He said in a low, broken voice, “I have always trusted you.”

Wolf Hall cover design! Are you team Thomas or Thomas?