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After several entries related to demonology and eschatology in the Middle Ages, today I propose should go to classical antiquity to solve a new riddle related to art and mythology. What mythological image represents the top left?

The scene shows a suggestive scene from classical mythology rescued thanks to the work of a renowned artist belonging to one of Britain's most reactionary movements in the second half of the nineteenth century. This pictorial movement profoundly transformed the English conception of landscape in the second half of the nineteenth century to move the performance of their works in the workshops to the environments in which the authors were able to soak up the multi-sensory experience of nature and translate it with large doses virtuosity in his works. The completion of the work in the countryside, half of pictorial creation would recover after the Impressionist movement, was ultimately a reaction against the rigid academic creativity braking from authors concerned about all for the recovery of classical myths and biblical and medieval romance.

The author of the paintings, a disciple of a prominent author who shares his name with one of the greatest writers of world literature, differs from others of the same movement that lacked the strong social ideals of these, although , surrounded by a halo works of deep romanticism that purports to represent a dream world away from the negative developments of industrialization.

classic myth that illustrates this author has come to us through the writings of a prominent classical author who attributed to him many fans and highlighted the details of his romances in a series of poems that speak of the various phases through which spent their relations with one of three women who embodied possibly the synthesis of several lovers. This series of poems open his career as a writer reaching his works posterioriores a place of honor in the classical tradition.

The protagonist of the myth was so skilled in artistic jobs that came to compete in skill with another famous artist mythology who escaped certain death issued by a greedy and pretentious with its ingencio monarch and his artistic ability. However, the life of the protagonist of our myth he was not satisfied with the recognition of his art and devoted all efforts to search for an obsession that nearly lead him to madness but had intervened at the precise moment the will of the gods.

What mythological episode we talking about?