
What is the significance of the two females depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Lines suggested by a picture of two females"?
By Charles Lamb · First published 1811 · Genre: Poetry, Art Critique, Historical · 198 words
The lady Blanche, regardless of all her lovers' fears, / To the Ursuline convent hastens, and long the abbess hears. / "O Blanche, my child, repent ye of the courtly life ye lead. " / Blanche looked on a rosebud, and little seem'd to heed.
She looked on the rosebud, she looked round and thought / On all her heart had whisper'd, and all the Nun had taught. / "I am worshipped by lovers, and brightly shines my fame, / All Christendom resoundeth the noble Blanche's name.
Nor shall I quickly wither like the rosebud from the tree, / My queen-like graces shining when my beauty's gone from me.
art · Leonardo da Vinci · females · painting · analysis · interpretation · Renaissance · female representation · visual art · literary response · aesthetics · cultural commentary
Lines Suggested by a Picture of Two Females by Leonardo da Vinci is listed on Textopian as an essay by Charles Lamb, dated 1811 CE.
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