We've been having a think about our upcoming concert Magical Mendelssohn and More! on 8 November and we thought it might be nice to take a look at a few paintings on the theme of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which is one of the pieces we'll be playing. Here are a few of our favourites...
1. William Blake
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing c.1786
This illustrates Titania's instruction to her fairy train in the last scene of the play:
Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place.
1. William Blake
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing c.1786
This illustrates Titania's instruction to her fairy train in the last scene of the play:
Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place.
2. Henry Fuseli
Titania and Bottom c.1790
Fuseli illustrates a moment from Act IV scene 1, in which Oberon casts a spell on Queen Titania, as a result of which she falls in love with Bottom, whose head has been transformed into that of an ass. Here she murmurs lovingly to the object of her affections:
Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk roses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
Titania and Bottom c.1790
Fuseli illustrates a moment from Act IV scene 1, in which Oberon casts a spell on Queen Titania, as a result of which she falls in love with Bottom, whose head has been transformed into that of an ass. Here she murmurs lovingly to the object of her affections:
Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk roses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
3. Theodore Von
Holst
The Fairy Lovers c.1840
The Fairy Lovers c.1840
4. Joseph Beuys
White Woman in the Grass (Fairy) 1954
White Woman in the Grass (Fairy) 1954
5. Marc Chagall
Midsummer Night's Dream (Songe d'une nuit d'été) c. 1939
Midsummer Night's Dream (Songe d'une nuit d'été) c. 1939
6. Joseph Mallord
William Turner
Queen Mab's Cave exhibited 1846
‘Queen Mab’ is described in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as ‘the fairies’ midwife’. She reveals secret hopes in the form of dreams, which she creates by driving her chariot over people as they sleep. She is invoked during Titania’s ‘moonlight revels’.
Southern Sinfonia's first concert of it's 2012-13 season, Magical Mendelssohn and More!, takes place on Thursday 8 November at St. Nicolas Church, Newbury. For more information, please visit our website.
Queen Mab's Cave exhibited 1846
‘Queen Mab’ is described in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as ‘the fairies’ midwife’. She reveals secret hopes in the form of dreams, which she creates by driving her chariot over people as they sleep. She is invoked during Titania’s ‘moonlight revels’.
Southern Sinfonia's first concert of it's 2012-13 season, Magical Mendelssohn and More!, takes place on Thursday 8 November at St. Nicolas Church, Newbury. For more information, please visit our website.
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