Thursday, June 24, 2010

Love Triumphant

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George Frederick Watts
(English, 1817-1904)
Love Triumphant, 1885
Oil on canvas

Caption from The Victorian Web:
Time and Death having traveled together through the ages, have run their course and are at length overthrown. Love alone arises on immortal wings, triumphantly, with outspread arms to the eternal skies.

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