#Lashunta Inspirational Pic of the Week
Artist is Yvonne Clarinval (Salammbo Invoking the Moon, 1910)
This is a piece of historical romance, inspired by Gustave Flaubert's novel published in 1862. I find it intriguing because of the Art Nouveau style, the pose, and also because it deals with nature-centered worship, which is of course a major theme among Lashunta Religion.
It also occurs to me that much of Fantasy - be it High, Sword & Sorcery, or dare I say Planetary Romance - grew directly out of Nineteenth Century Historical Romance. Before we let our imaginations play wild among the stars or on different worlds, we first played in the past, such as this portrait, set in Carthage after the First Punic War was lost to Rome. Thus it is a tale inherent with tragedy, and as one would expect with Nineteenth Century Tragedy, along with paintings like this, there have been a few operas composed.
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