Ligeia Siren

Ligeia Siren is a chalk drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti completed in 1873. The painting depicts a siren, a creature from classical Greek mythology, familiar from tales such as Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Georgics. The drawing is predominantly inspired from Rossetti's own 1869 libretto The Doom of the Sirens, in which Ligeia is one of the female leads. Instead of depicting the traditional encounter of the siren with her victims, who, entranced by her beauty and powers of music, are doomed to a terrible fate (as in The Siren (1900) by John William Waterhouse or Ulysses and the Sirens (1909) by Herbert James Draper), Rossetti depicts a timeless moment, where, contrary to the depiction in his libretto, she appears tranquil and impassive to her intended victims in the background.

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摘自英文维基百科「Ligeia Siren」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。