祝福されし乙女 The Blessed Damozel
サイズ:174 × 94 cm フォグ美術館(ハーヴァード大学)蔵
作 者:ダンテ・ガブリエル・ロセッティ
この絵は、ダンテ・ガブリエル・ロセッティによって描かれた「祝福されし乙女」という作品です。
ロセッティ自身が、恋人の死を悲しむ女性を詠んだエドガー・アラン・ポーの詩「レーヴェン」に影響を受け、書いた詩「祝福されし乙女」を絵画表現したものです。
下の部分が、恋人であった男性です。
この詩とは、次のスタンザで表現されているようです。
The blessed damozel leaned out
From the gold bar of Heaven;
Her eyes were deeper than the depth
Of waters stilled at even;
She had three lilies in her hand,
And the stars in her hair were seven.
Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem,
No wrought flowers did adorn,
But a white rose of Mary's gift,
For service meetly worn;
Her hair that lay along her back
Was yellow like ripe corn.
Herseemed she scarce had been a day
One of God's choristers;
The wonder was not yet quite gone
From that still look of hers;
Albeit, to them she left, her day
Had counted as ten years.
(To one, it is ten years of years.
. . . Yet now, and in this place,
Surely she leaned o'er me—her hair
Fell all about my face. . . .
Nothing: the autumn fall of leaves.
The whole year sets apace.)
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