20 min.

The Cursed Painting, Part 2 The Whispering Gallery

    • Beeldende kunst

We left off with two abandoned ships (from the Franklin expedition), no survivors and the terrible story that the officers and crew of the ships had perished in the hostile environment of the polar desert —some were never accounted for. Now we explore where the painting title came from, coming to understand Edwin Landseer and a bit about how melancholia (depression) was treated during Victorian times.

We left off with two abandoned ships (from the Franklin expedition), no survivors and the terrible story that the officers and crew of the ships had perished in the hostile environment of the polar desert —some were never accounted for. Now we explore where the painting title came from, coming to understand Edwin Landseer and a bit about how melancholia (depression) was treated during Victorian times.

20 min.