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Queen Guinevere
pencil on card
Gordon Napier, 2006
Arthur's queen consort. Her secret
affair with Sir Lancelot, when exposed by Mordred, ruptured the fellowship
of the Round Table, and brought about the downfall of lustrous Camelot.
Guinevere, the White Fay, belonged to ageless British myth. She made her
first literary appearance in the medieval work of Chretien de Troyes,
who, elsewhere, was also the first romancer to write of the Grail. The
adultery between the queen and the knight became the archetype for fatal
attraction. Different writers assigned Guinevere with different characteristics
and motives, contributing to her enigmatic persona. She always seemed
an ambivalent personality to my mind, and I tried to show that in this
image. She watches- who-knows-what?, thinking- who-knows what?
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