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vooruitmariek · 1 month

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@mortiscausa's march to camelot 5: love

Tristan & Iseult

#vooruitmariek #march to camelot #arthuriana #tristan and iseult #tristan and isolde #arthurian legends #arthurian illustration #traditional illustration #promarkers #a few of my markers gave up halfway rip #had a hard time with this one but at least it's finished

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coldwinterwhispers · 3 months

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Tristan and Isolde (Death) by Rogelio de Egusquiza (1910)

#tristan and iseult #tristan and isolde #art #art history #art painting #painting #oil on canvas #oil painting #spanish art #spanish artist #death in art #death #rogelio de egusquiza #20th century #20th century art #beautiful art

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ladyjuquia · 1 year

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Tristan and Isolde is a very known Story in Europe. Especially in Germany. Thanks to Richard Wagners Opera with the same name, it became so popular King Ludwig II. of Bayern commissioned a Tristan and Isolde Painting for his Neuschwanstein Castle! It's painted by August Spieß (1881) and in his bedroom!

Here you can see the Painting in the Bedroom and how big it actually is. On the full Painting you can see Brangaine in the Background as well, what a sight to behold!

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chiropteracupola · 24 days

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No one ever told me leaving was the easy part / I've got to stay away / Leaving you was easy, now I've got to do what's hard / I've got to stay away...

[a tristan for @mortiscausa’s ’march to camelot,’ for the prompt ‘love’]

#em draws stuff #march to camelot #arthurian things #arthuriana #tristan and iseult #BACK ON THIS HORSE AGAIN! it is going to STAY MARCH until I am DONE WITH ONE MORE OF THESE and THEN it may be april #this one was So Very Hard and I'm still not 100% sure on it but it's done and I did it and anyway I like it more than the cei one :/#I'm VERY pleased with the dragon altho' I can't rightly say where it was that I found the version of the story where there Is a dragon #I suppose it was either in roger lancelyn green or in rosemary sutcliff's 'the sword and the circle'#but having neither on hand at present I cannot exactly Check alas alack #caption lyrics are from 'stayaway' by muna as I was listening to the tiny desk version whilst drawing and I felt it was only apt

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sword-fighting-hermit · 1 month

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Star-crossed [love]rs

“Apart, the lovers could neither live nor die, for it was life and death together”.

For @mortiscausa‘s March to Camelot.

#march to camelot #tristan and iseult #iseult #tristan #sir tristan #arthurian mythology #arthurian fanart #arthuriana #art #artists on tumblr #my art #this is part of a two-piece #not sure I got to finish the other half though

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malorydaily · 2 months

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There is so much that I want to say and share about the Tristan legend (long ago I once wrote a dissertation specifically on the love potion and various love magics in arthurian legend). What is most intriguing about it is how it's a narrative device that allows for such contradictory knightly behaviour.

Moreover, there are several variations in how the potion behaves, throwing even more complication into the mix. In Beroul's The Romance of Tristan, the oldest version that is believed to be closest to whatever an original tale might look like, the potion has a time limit, and wears off in the middle of the lovers' affair. In other versions, such as Thomas of Britain's Tristan, the love potion lasts until the end of the lovers' lifetimes.

In Le Morte D'Arthur, Malory works closely from the poem Sir Tristrem, as well as the Prose Tristan – a huge source which in turn takes many cues from Beroul and Thomas of Britain. Malory's lovers are in it for the long haul, "they loued eyther other so wel that neuer theyr loue departed for wele neyther for wo / And thus it happed the loue fyrste betwixe sire Tristram and la beale Isoud / the whiche loue neuer departed the dayes of their lyf | they loved either other so well that never their love departed for weal neither for woe. And thus it happed the love first betwixt Sir Tristram and La Beale Isoud, the which love never departed the days of their life."

But this love is fraught by social impropriety, the fact that they commit adultery is automatically a sin. However, if we view the love potion as the reason for their infidelity and excuse their moral failures, does that absolve their actions of any wrongdoing? And even if so, is manufactured passion truly the ideal of chivalric love that we should admire?

#malorydaily #arthuriana #tristan #tristram #tristan and isolde #tristan and iseult #isolde #iseult #le morte d'arthur

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cowboyscaviar · 15 days

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basically

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birdsofrhiannon · 3 months

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La Belle Isolde by Frederick Sandys

#iseult #celtic mythology #tristan and iseult #frederick sandys #pre-raphaelite #celtic

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surfingkaliyuga · 8 days

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Illustration by Mac Harshberger for the 1927 English edition of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier, translated by Hilaire Belloc.

#illustration #book #books #legends #medieval #knight #tristan and iseult #tristan and isolde #mac harshberger #joseph bedier #hilaire belloc

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ascorian · 5 months

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tristan and isolde

#in no way in hell i thought i'd like it as much as i did #uni makes me read stuff i'd never pick up and actually enjoy it #listen to it before you sleep you'll enjoy it immensely i'm sure #literature #tristan and isolde #tristan and iseult #illustration

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illustration-alcove · 2 years

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Franz Strassen’s illustrations for Tristan and Iseult.

#franz strassen #tristan and iseult #monochrome #celtic literature

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heliabel · 2 months

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Iseult of Brittany, my beloved.

#fypage #arthurian legend #camelot #arthurian lore #king arthur #morgana #arthurian knights #lancelot #morgan le fay #morgause #iseult #tristan and iseult

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oneshoulderangel · 8 months

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My personal approach to writing Isolde and Tristan’s relationship is that the love potion only takes effect sporadically or when they’re in close proximity. When they’re not under the influence they hate each other.

A rumor spread in the castle that Tristan has a secret lover. Isolde finds the situation laughable, while Brangaine is contemplating an early retirement.

#shoulderangelcomics #arthuriana #incorrect arthurian quotes #tristan and iseult #tristan and isolde #queen isolde #isolde #queen isuelt #isuelt #brangaine #source: sword art online abridged

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sickfreaksirkay · 8 days

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yeah <3 (from Between Knights: Triangular Desire and Sir Palomides in Sir Thomas Malory's "The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones")

#the real source of strength and of emotional support for men lies in the fellow feelings of other men #oh im sure #fork found in kitchen #this article is definitely worth reading if you have access to jstor btw #btw this is haha funny gay and all but also homosociality in arthuriana is a super interesting topic im sooo normal about it #arthuriana #arthurian literature #medieval literature #arthurian legend #thomas malory #fuck me i hate tagging #le morte d'arthur #sir tristram #sir tristan #sir palomides #palomides and tristram #isolde #tristan and iseult

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la-belle-histoire · 8 hours

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Tristan and Isolde (Life), Rogelio de Egusquiza. 1912.

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sixty-silver-wishes · 10 months

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so in my arthurian literature class a few years ago, we read gottfried von strassburg’s tristan and isolde, and I can’t stop thinking about how FUNNY it is

a list of dumb things that happen in gottfried von strassburg’s tristan and isolde:

tristan manages to sneak into ireland calling himself "tantris," and somehow fools isolde and the queen (also named isolde; there are three people named isolde in the whole book) and the only way isolde finds out it's him is because she's able to match his sword with the wound in her uncle's skull, and not, you know, because tristan just switched the two syllables in his name around. she spends a whole paragraph trying to figure this out

tristan can speak five different languages and the best thing he can come up with is fucking tantris

isolde and her mother are supposed to be like super advanced healers but they somehow can’t immediately figure this out

one of tristan’s skills is being a really good liar. but no we got TANTRIS. do you see why I’m mad about this

this whole story started in the first place because tristan got abducted by norwegian pirates while playing chess on a boat, and he doesn't even notice he's been kidnapped at first

a whole two pages on how to skin a deer carcass, as well as extensive etymology for obscure hunting terms

tristan saying he's not good at playing the harp, only for his epic harp playing to be described in lengthy detail

tristan being depressed until he meets his friend's dog, then wanting to get the dog for isolde, then going on a huge side quest where he fights a giant so his friend will give him the dog

the whole love triangle where tristan has to choose between isolde and someone else also named isolde with basically the same personality

in the wagner opera adaptation, brangane deliberately switches the love and death potions. meanwhile in gottfried’s source text, she literally just forgets she was supposed to deliver a love potion so isolde and mark could drink it, mistakes it for wine, and gives it to tristan and isolde

tristan and isolde spend the entire journey to cornwall having sex

the whole sideplot where marjadoc and melot are trying to catch tristan and isolde having an affair so they dump flour all over the ground

there’s a dragon for some reason

in conclusion, you can guess why I was so disappointed when I watched the wagner opera

#tristan and isolde #tristan #tristan und isolde #tristan and iseult #arthurian literature #literature #gottfried von strassburg #seriously this book is so funny you should read it #rip brangane tho

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