Traditional Art

Cymon and Iphigenia- Frederic Leighton, oil on canvas (1884) ( lemmy.world )

Based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron (14th century), the painting depicts a scene from the first tale of day five; Iphigenia is sleeping in the woods and Cymon, a young nobleman, stands gazing at her beauty which fills him with inspiration. After seeing her, Cymon changes from a badly mannered lout to an ideal polymath.

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