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Iconographie de Merlin et la légende arthurienne

La reine Guenièvre

Source : Lancelot and Guinevere by HERBERT DRAPER. HERBERT DRAPER.

Le combat entre Mordred et Arthur

Le combat mortel entre Mordred et Arthur Source : Kappes, Alfred (1850-1894). "The Combat of Mordred and King Arthur," from Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880.

Galahad

Source : The year after Connecticut Yankee came out, Edwin Austin Abbey, another American expatriate painter, was commissioned to create a fifteen-panel mural for the Book Delivery Room at the new Boston Public Library. The subject he chose was "The Quest for the Holy Grail." Below is the panel "Sir Galahad being led to the Seat Perilous."

Merlin et Vortigern

Source : Merlin reads his prohecies to King Vortigern. British Library MS Cotton Claudius B VII f.224, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophetiae Merlini. http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/artlit/image1.htm 1250-1270 Unknown illustrator

Merlin et Nimüe

Source : Peinture du préraphaélite Edward Brune-Jones (1870).

Merlinus

Source : Illustrations from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514). http://www.beloit.edu/~nurember/book/images/ People/Early_Christian_Medieval/index.htm

Merlin

Source : Cycle de Lancelot-Graal, manuscrit de Bonn. Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville, Minnesota.

Comment Arthur a trouvé son épée

Comment Arthur a trouvé son épée Excalibur Source : Kappes, Alfred (1850-1894). "How Arthur Gat His Sword Excalibur," from Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880.

Arthur confié à Merlin

Source : So the child was delivered unto Merlin, and so he bare it forth By N. C. Wyeth From Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur, 1917.

Merlin

Source : Dan Beard (1850-1941). "Merlin" from: Illustrations to Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889.

L'enserrement de Merlin par Nimüe

Source : Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). "Merlin and Nimue. How by her Subtle Working she Made Merlin to Go Under the Stone to Let her Wit of the Marvels There: and she Wrought so There for him That he Came Never Out for All Craft he Could Do" from: The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Morte D'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917.

Arthur est confié à Merlin

Source : Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). "So the Child was Delivered unto Merlin" from: The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Morte D'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917.

Viviane charme Merlin

Source : Beguiling of Merlin, 1874 By Sir Edward Burne-Jones.

Merlin et Arthur

Source : Histoire de Merlin, XIVe siècle. Ms Douce 178, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Merlin

Source : Excalibur de John Boorman, 1981, Warner/Orion.

Merlin

Couverture du Merlin de Robert de Boron Source : Merlin brandissant son étandard, manuscrit de la Bibliothèque Nationale.

Merlin

Source : Illustration de Maxime Préaud pour le Merlin de Michel Rio.

Merlin prophète

Source : Merlin, The Enchanter By Louis Rhead

L'Enchanteur Merlin

Source : Pyle, Howard (1853-1911), "Merlin" from: The Story of King Arthur and His Knights. New York: Scribner's, 1903.

Merlin et Uter

Source : Chronique de Peter of Langtoft, 1307, Ms Royal 20 A II, British Library, Londres.

And after that she set herself...

"And after that she set herself to gain Him, the most famous man of all those times . . ." Source : Rhead, George Wooliscroft & Louis. "Merlin" from Tennyson, Alfred. Idylls of the King: Vivien, Elaine, Enid, Guinevere. New York: R. H. Russell, 1898.

Merlin prend l'apparence d'un cerf

Source : inconnue.

Viviane charme Merlin

Source : Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) "Vivien and Merlin" from: Illustrations to Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" and Other Poems. London: Henry S. King and Company, 1875.

L'Enserrement de Merlin par Viviane

Source : H. J. Ford (1860-1941), "Merlin and Vivien" from: King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table. Ed. Andrew Lang. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902.

She took the helm...

"She took the helm and he the sail; the boat Drave with a sudden wind across the deeps..." Source : Rhead, George Wooliscroft & Louis. "Merlin and Vivien" from Tennyson, Alfred. Idylls of the King: Vivien, Elaine, Enid, Guinevere. New York: R. H. Russell, 1898.

Merlin sous le charme de Nimüe

Source : Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), "Merlin" from: Idylls of the King. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.

Viviane et Merlin

Source : Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), "Merlin and Vivien" from: Idylls of the King. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.

Merlin prend Arthur en charge

Source : Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), "Merlin Finds the Baby Arthur" from: Idylls of the King. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.

Merlin et Viviane

Source : Speed, Lancelot (1860-1931), "Merlin and Vivien" from: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Ed. Rupert S. Holland. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1919.

Source : Manuscrit français 95 de la BNF.

Viviane

Source : Pyle, Howard (1853-1911), "The Enchantress Vivien" from: The Story of King Arthur and His Knights. New York: Scribner's, 1903.

Merlin, homme des bois

Source : Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-1898), "Merlin" from: Malory, Sir Thomas.The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing out of This World of Them All. London: Dent, 1893.

Viviane envoûte Merlin

Source : Pyle, Howard (1853-1911), "Vivien bewitches Merlin" from: The Story of King Arthur and His Knights. New York: Scribner's, 1903.

Merlin prend l'apparence d'un page

Source : Albert Herter (1871-1950) "Merlin, Changed into the Appearance of a Fair Young Squire" from :Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1899.

Merlin et Nimüe

Source : Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-1898), "Merlin and Nimue" from: Malory, Sir Thomas.The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing out of This World of Them All. London: Dent, 1893.

Merlin prend Arthur en charge

Source : Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-1898), "Merlin Taketh the Child Arthur" from: Malory, Sir Thomas.The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing out of This World of Them All. London: Dent, 1893.

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