Song of Songs (1)

in #songofsongs7 years ago (edited)

Song of Songs from the Old Testament has a specific place in my life. In this post I will only share some masterpieces that were inspired by this poem, In some future texts I will write about many interpretations of it's meaning and about other works of art based on Song of songs (such as a wonderful novel by Alexandr Kuprin named "Shulamith", a lyrical reconstruction of how the poem might have been created).

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Gustave Moreau, The Song of Songs, 1893.

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Gustave Moreau, Song of Songs, 1853.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Beloved, 1865

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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Rose of Sharon, 1860
(Check out other illustrations of the Bible by Schnorr - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Die_Bibel_in_Bildern)