{"id":3760,"date":"2019-02-12T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/five-victorian-paintings-that-break-tradition-in-their-celebration-of-love\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:07:15","slug":"five-victorian-paintings-break-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/five-victorian-paintings-break-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Victorian paintings that break tradition in their celebration of love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            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that break tradition in their celebration of love<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  In honor of Valentine\u2019s Day, art historian Kate Flint shares her five favorite paintings that break the conventions of the 19th century in their depiction of romance. <strong>[5 \u00bd min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Michelle Boston<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">February 12, 2019<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      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Cheaper paper and printing methods \u2014 as well as new techniques for cutting paper into hearts and other decorative shapes \u2014 led to the rise in the profitable commercial enterprise that remains to this day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1033836\">Kate Flint<\/a>, Provost Professor of Art History and English at USC Dornsife, studies 19th-century British art, literature and cultural history. Considering the cultural tides of the era, it\u2019s not a surprise that this period gave rise to the Valentine, she says. In Britain, and increasingly in the U.S. and Europe, there was more weight put on marriages based on love and companionship, as opposed to convenience, strategic alliances or money. \u201cThat\u2019s something that spills over into literature and that spills over into art,\u201d Flint said.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Valentine\u2019s Day, Flint selected five paintings from the Victorian period that embody this cultural shift. While many paintings of the time depicted clich\u00e9d gender roles \u2014 \u201ca strong, upright, handsome young man with a woman adoringly gazing up to him,\u201d she said \u2014 many harken back to classical or medieval times, when artwork tended to exhibit more reciprocal passion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was what was really interested me \u2014 works that celebrate mutuality, passion, care and also reciprocity,\u201d she said. \u201cLove as it was in the moment and not with an eye to the future of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/ValentinePainting1-2948.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>1. \u201cPaolo and Francesca da Rimini\u201d (1855) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti<\/h2>\n<p>This triptych depicts the story of adulterous lovers Paolo and Francesca, which originates from Canto V of Dante\u2019s <i>Inferno<\/i>. In the left panel, Paolo and Francesca are reading one of literature\u2019s most powerful pieces of illicit love \u2014 the romance between Lancelot and Guinevere at King Arthur\u2019s Court, a scene that plays on Victorian\u2019s anxieties about the corrupting power of reading, said Flint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir ecstasy is beautifully set off by the horrified looks on Dante and Virgil\u2019s faces in the center panel. They have to hang on to each other in a kind of distressed friendship to cope with what they\u2019re witnessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the final scene on the right, the lovers are shown banished to the second circle of hell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut actually, despite all of the flames going past them like little tadpoles, they look like angels,\u201d Flint said. \u201cThey\u2019re just in each other\u2019s arms, they\u2019re swooning with happiness, and however much they\u2019re going to be singed by fire, they cannot resist each other. They\u2019re \u2014 as far as one can see \u2014extraordinarily happy. For now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Valentinessecond-02-2948.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>2. <i>Love Among the Ruins<\/i> (1894) by Edward Burne-Jones<\/h2>\n<p>The viewer is left to invent the story of the image, but there are clues beyond the title that suggest a post-apocalyptic setting, said Flint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know anything about what looks like an abandoned palace. There\u2019s fallen masonry in the foreground. There are these beautiful brown roses, which appear to be taking over the previous building as though they\u2019ve escaped from the garden,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>While the arrangement of the lovers in this portrait is more conventional \u2014 a young man and a young woman clinging to each other \u2014 the woman has a strength in her gaze, Flint said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the man may be looking down at her with love and adoration, and she\u2019s looking out more dreamily and more speculatively into a completely unknown future, she\u2019s not looking out weakly. She looks to me like she\u2019s trying to figure out, \u2018What do we do next?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Valentinesthird-03-2948.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>3. <i>Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene<\/i> (1864) by Simeon Solomon<\/h2>\n<p>In this painting, Simeon Solomon depicts passion between Erinna and Sappho, two female poets in ancient Greece. Sappho, whose works are associated with love between women, fascinated Victorian writers and scholars as fragments of her poetry were discovered and translated.<\/p>\n<p>In the painting, Sappho embraces Erinna. We\u2019re unsure if the feeling is mutual, Flint said, but the rose petal on her foot, which she hasn\u2019t bothered to flick away, may mean she is wrapped up in the moment. A lyre and a scroll off to the side suggests that Sappho might be writing Erinna a poem or about to sing her a song.<\/p>\n<p>But the most telling clues that this love may be unconventional or dangerous, Flint explained, are the birds in the background. A pair of turtle doves behind the two women suggests they are billing and cooing to each other. But on the left-hand side there\u2019s a crow mocking them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s ominous, jeering at them \u2014 whatever is going on suggests that they\u2019re either going to be mocked or under threat from outside,\u201d Flint said.<\/p>\n<p>With this painting, Solomon, who suffered persecution and discrimination because of his homosexuality, is bringing same-sex love into the public domain of a gallery or an exhibition wall, explained Flint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe appears to be speaking for desires and relationships that proliferated in Victorian Britain, but were not spoken about overtly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/RosesWreath-2948.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>4. <i>A Wreath of Roses<\/i> (1880) by Marie Spartali Stillman<\/h2>\n<p>Many of the paintings on this list are trying to suspend time and play with 19th-century audiences\u2019 expectations of viewing a story. <i>A Wreath of Roses<\/i> is no different. However, we\u2019re not quite sure what the story is here, Flint said.<\/p>\n<p>We can only guess what the relationship is between the two women. \u201cIt may be two women in what the Victorian\u2019s would have termed a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romantic_friendship\">romantic friendship<\/a>\u2019 or perhaps two sisters \u2014 Stillman often used her daughter and two step daughters as models in her work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Above all, it appears to be about a romantic atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like a beautiful summer day outside. There are roses and lilies, which are conventional symbols of love and passion. But the romance lies within the feeling of contentment, unquestioning satisfaction, pleasure and sort of sense of completion in each other\u2019s presence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/walkingsand-2948.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"745\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>5. <i>Writing on the Sand<\/i> (1859) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti<\/h2>\n<p>Historically, some critics have read this painting as depicting a possible separation between the two lovers. The man looks to be drawing the woman\u2019s portrait in the sand, recalling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/45189\/amoretti-lxxv-one-day-i-wrote-her-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">famous poem<\/a> by Edmund Spenser that begins: \u201cOne day I wrote her name upon the strand, but came the waves and washed it all away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the one hand, the poem is saying you can\u2019t hold love still. Time washes away everything,\u201d said Flint. \u201cBut the very fact of writing about love in a sonnet or capturing it in a painting immortalizes it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scene that Rossetti creates breaks from the convention of lovers gazing at each other in an enclosed space. \u201cInstead, we have a celebration of love that takes place out in the world going for a walk along the beach,\u201d said Flint.<\/p>\n<p>She interprets it as a happy picture: \u201cThey appear to be tripping happily along the sand together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  \n        \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-related-stories \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-related-stories\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n    \n                  <article>\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/love-rituals-blossom-from-unexpected-origins\/\" \n                        class=\"\" \n      >Romance rituals blossom from unexpected origins<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/article>\n              <article>\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/dont-take-love-for-granted-a-new-course-challenges-our-preconceived-ideas-about-romance-eroticism-and-religion\/\" \n                        class=\"\" \n      >Don\u2019t take love for granted: A new course challenges our preconceived ideas about romance, eroticism and religion<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/article>\n              <article>\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/online-dating-revolutionized-love\/\" \n                        class=\"\" \n      >For better or worse: Looking for love in the internet age<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        <\/article>\n            <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Valentine\u2019s Day, art historian Kate Flint shares her five favorite paintings that break the conventions of the 19th century in their depiction of romance. <strong>[5 \u00bd min read]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[139,103],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","tag-art-history","tag-holidays"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>5 Victorian paintings that break tradition in their celebration of love<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Art historian Kate Flint shares her five favorite paintings that break the conventions of the 19th century in their depiction of romance. 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