Freitag, 12. August 2022

THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORÉ, BOOK THE SECOND

 




Mita and her baby.


Roland's request.


Rolands's rejection
 

A royal roar.

A kick for Cupid.
 

Pavia in peril.

Brother Desiderat.

The drowned darling.

The despairing ladies.

The haste of Hugo.


The lion and the assassin.
 

Charlemagne at his capitularies.


A wounded warrior.


The lady and her knight.


 The Emperor laughs.

Mitaine a page.




Charlemagne at his prayers.


Charlemagne's vision.


Murad's nightmare.
 

The ghost of Murad.
 


The King's revenge.


Murad's maddened steed.

Impalment.


Marsillus meditates.


Marsillus with Murad's bones.


Marsillus at Murad's grave.
 
 


The delighted Saracens.


Mahomet's approving smile.

Marsillus enraged.

The escaping emirs.



The one-eyed assembly.



The pages' archery practice.


The wall begins to yawn.


The fall of Saragossa.


The slumbering Prophet.


The Prophet takes an observation.


Roland rides into space.

Ronald in Mahomet's Paradise.


Mahomet's musicians.

The Prophet's elephants.

 
The hauris on camels.


The Prophet.


Roland defies the Prophet.

The sun and the sandy plain.


The phantom fort.

Eblis.

Roland's decent.





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