This is a tribute to the Amazing work of Edmund
Blair Leighton. The pictures are amazing
I could just look at these pictures for hours you really feel like you are
there! If you look at each picture try to look at all the details even in the
background.
Edmund Blair Leighton (21 September 1852 – 1 September 1922) was an English painter
of historical genre scenes, specializing in Regency and medieval subjects.
God Speed is a painting by British artist Edmund Leighton,
depicting an armored knight departing to war and leaving his beloved. The woman
ties a red sash around the knight's arm, which he is meant to return, a medieval
custom which assured both parties that they would be reunited, alive and well.[1] Agriffin on
the banister of the stairs is a symbol of strength and military courage.[1] The knight departs through a castle gate
with portcullis.
The painting was exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts in 1900.[2]
God Speed was the first of several paintings by Leighton in the
1900s on the subject of chivalry, the others being
The Accolade (1901)
The Accolade (1901)
Tristan and Isolde (1902)
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