History tells us that Medieval Ages were were dark, cruel, wars, hard work and poverty. Even we know this, most of the time we romanticize and fantasize this era. Our fantasies are based on love stories about knights and ladies and troubadour`s love songs. I have to admit that I romanticize Medieval Ages, too.
There are also several painters from the 19th century who transferred their imagination on a canvas. All the paintings are very gentle, soft and dreamy. I have not found any painting with dark colors or representing battle fields. It comes to my mind that all these paintings were paint in the era of Romanticism, but not. All mentioned painters were born after. Anyhow romantic feeling was reborn again at the end of the 19th century.
Edmund Blair Leighton – (21 Sept 1852 – 1 Sept 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes. His favorite painting objects were from Medieval and Regency era. He attend to evening classes in South Kensington and then to Heatherley’s School in Newman Street in London. In age of 21, he entered the Royal Academy Schools.
Frank Cadogan Cowper – (16 Oct 1877 – 17 Nov 1958) was an English painter and illustrator of portraits, historical and literary scenes. He first studied art at St John’s Wood Art School in 1896 and then went on to study at the Royal Academy Schools from 1897 to 1902.
John William Waterhouse – (6 Apr 1849 – 10 Feb 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s style. His paintings represent women from ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend.
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale – (25 Jan 1872 – 10 Mar 1945) was an English artist known for her paintings, book illustrations and for a number of works in stained glass.
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