How This Fairytale Painting of Doomed Lovers Became a Victorian Sensation´Frederic William Burton's 19th-century masterpiece "Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs" illustrates one of the most tragic medieval love stories.

How This Fairytale Painting of Doomed Lovers Became a Victorian Sensation
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Frederic William Burton's 19th-century masterpiece "Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs" illustrates one of the most tragic medieval love stories.

by Annikka Olsen

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/burton-the-meeting-on-the-turret-stairs-2723484

More about Burton:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_William_Burton

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