How Liza Loved the King, Edmund Leighton, 1890

Lisa was a character in boccaccio's decameron, the daughter of an apothecary, who saw king pietro of aragon from a distance, and fell in love with him, becoming deathly ill in consequence. The tale was retold in the 19th century by george eliot (1869) and charles algernon swinburne among others. Object Type: painting. Date: 1890. Dimensions: height: 99.1 cm (39 in); width: 163 cm (64.1 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum. Edmund Blair Leighton - How Liza Loved the King

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Author: Edmund Leighton (1852–1922)Source: commons.wikimedia.org

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