3. 

“The teaching of
Art… is the
teaching of all
things”
“The art of any
country is the
exponent of its
social and political
virtues”

4. truth
beauty
divinity
“the
Beautiful as
a gift from
God”

5. Art
Mechanical
Something behind the
pretty picture…

6. Ruskin’s real art theory?
Art is “the expression of
spirits of great men”
(Modern Painters III).

7. 


The Picture of Dorian
Gray
“If a work of art is rich
and vital and
complete, those who
have artistic instincts
will see its beauty and
those to whom ethics
appeal more strongly
will see its moral
lesson.”
“Books are well
written, or badly
written. That is all.”

8. Tell me the story of King Arthur.

9. 
Geoffrey of Monmouth Historia Regum
Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain)
Arthur
 Merlin
 Guinevere
 Avalon


10. 

Centers more on the other characters:
Lancelot, Guenevere, Perceval, Galahad, Gawai
n, Tristan, and Isolde
Relationship between Lancelot and Guenevere

11. 


Le Morte d’ Arthur by Thomas Malory
Romantic ideal of Arthur
Most later works are based on Malory

12. 


Last printing of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in
1634
For two hundred years, used as an allegory
Tom Thumb

13. 


Medievalism, Romanticism, and the Gothic
Revival
Code of ethics for 19th-century gentlemen
shaped around chivalry
1816—Le Morte d'Arthur was reprinted for the
first time since 1634

14. 

1832—”The Lady of Shalott”
1859—Idylls of the King

16. Willows whiten, aspens quiver,
Little breezes dusk and shiver
Through the wave that runs forever
By the island in the river
Flowing down to Camelot.
Four gray walls, and four gray towers,
Overlook a space of flowers,
And the silent isle imbowers
The Lady of Shalott.

17. But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often through the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, went to Camelot:
Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed;
"I am half-sick of shadows, " said
The Lady of Shalott.

18. She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She looked down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror cracked from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me, " cried
The Lady of Shalott.

19. Who is this? and what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
And they crossed themselves for fear,
All the knights at Camelot:
But Lancelot mused a little space;
He said, "She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott. "

20.  Draw
a book cover for
“The Lady of Shalott”
 Don’t worry if you are not
an artist
 Be creative!

21.  Draw
a book cover for
“The Lady of Shalott” for
a Victorian audience

22. How
are they the same?
How are they different?
Why?

23. 



Pre-Raphaelite artists drew from the literature to
create their renditions
Took a great deal of artistic license
Tennyson unsatisfied
Ruskin: “Many of the plates are very noble
things, though not, it seems to me, illustrations of
your poems. I believe, in fact, that good pictures
never can be; they are always another
poem, subordinate but wholly different from the
poet's conception, and serve chiefly to show the
reader how variously the same verses may affect
various minds.”

36. How can the Lady
of Shalott represent
the artist?

41. link

42. Readings:
 Morris
“How I Became
a Socialist” (pp. 15221525)
 Mill On Liberty (pp.
1095-1104)