Thursday, February 2, 2017

Representations of Exile in Images

A few paintings depicting exile in history or myth.

"Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena," by F. J. Sandmann (1820)

"Dante Alighieri in Exile," by Domenico Petarlini (1860)

"Ovid in Exile," by Ion Theodorescu Sion (1915)

J.M.W. Turner, "Ovid Banished from Rome," 1838

"The First Night in Exile," from the Ramayana, a Hindu epic that tells
of the wrongful exile of prince Rama, his wife and brother