The final seminar paper focuses on the legend of Tristan and Isolde. The first part of the paper presents the literary tradition of the legend from the beginning of the its development to the start of the 19th century. The literary background is followed by medieval depictions, which present the majority of legend's artworks. The romance was depicted in various media, using different techniques, with some changes concerning iconographic motifs. The second part of the paper presents the revival of the legend in the painting of the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite, accompanied with the analysis of romances' depictions, made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris.
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