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Phantastes Chapter 23: The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
Full text linkSir Philip Sidney (1554-1583) was an Elizabethan courtier, soldier, and poet. The quotation derives from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590), and sets out Sidney’s definition of a gentleman. Late in his writing career, MacDonald published a collection of excerpts from Sidney: A Cabinet of Gems, Cut and Polished by Sir Philip Sidney (1892). MacDonald lectured on Sidney as early as 1854
Phantastes Chapter 20: The Faerie Queene
Full text linkEdmund Spenser (1552-1599), most famous for The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596), is a key influence on MacDonald generally and on Phantastes in particular. John Docherty writes that “MacDonald bases his upon the figure Phantastes living the forebrain of the ‘House of Alma\u27 (the human body) in book 2 of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene” (“Sources of Phantastes,” North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, vol. 25, 2005, pages 16-28)
Phantastes Chapter 15: Campaspe
Full text linkCampaspe, an Elizabethan play by John Lyly (1584). The lines quoted are from Act 3, Scene 4, and they indicate the notion of a Platonic beauty, an ideal beauty that the artist can never capture perfectl
Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame (c.1100)
No full textArtist: Unknown (Byzantine)
Subject: Mary daughter of Ann
Art Type & Medium: Medallion of Gold, silver, and enamel worked in cloisonné
Dimensions: Diameter of 3 1/4 inches
Credit Line: The Metropolitan Museum (Creative Commons / Public Access)https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/christianity_religious_mothers/1007/thumbnail.jp
Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame (c.1100)
No full textArtist: Unknown (Byzantine)
Subject: Mary daughter of Anne
Art Type & Medium: Medallion of Gold, silver, and enamel worked in cloisonné
Dimensions: Diameter of 3 1/4 inches
Credit Line: The Metropolitan Museum (Creative Commons / Public Access)https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/christianity_mothers_mary/1004/thumbnail.jp