hellelil and hildebrand 🙁

Hellelil and Hildebrand, The Meeting on the Turret Stairs

Frederic William Burton disappeared from the cultural radar within a few years of his death

The painter of ‘Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs’ hated the smell of paint

—– Part of my GoT in Art series * Original painting is Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton

“The Meeting on the Turret Stairs” is a painting that never fails to captivate me. Its beauty is in the fleeting moment it captures—the tension, the love, the heartbreak, all in a glance. You can feel the emotions as if you’re standing right there, watching two souls parting in silence. The delicate balance of light and shadow pulls you in, while every detail of their expressions tells a story of longing and unspoken words. It reminds me that sometimes, it’s the moments we can’t hold on to…

On display for 2 hours each week.

The subject of the painting is the love story of Hellelil, who fell in love with her personal guard Hildebrand. The translation of the poem by William Morris called Hildebrand And Hellelil: Hellelil sitteth in bower there, None knows my grief but God alone, And seweth at the seam so fair, I never wail my sorrow to any other one.

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔,𝟏𝟖𝟔𝟒 by Frederic William Burton Voted by the Irish public as Ireland's favorite painting in 2012, Burton's magnificent watercolor resides in the National Gallery of Ireland. The artwork refers to a famous Danish ballad in which Hellelil falls in love with her personal guard. Frederic William Burton (1816-1900) was an Irish Victorian painter and curator who was the third director of…