O revivalismo medieval pelas lentes do gênero: as fotografias De Julia Margaret Cameron para a obra the Idylls of the King e outros poemas de Alfred Tennyson

Maria Cristina Pereira

doi:10.5433/2237-9126.2017v11n20p119

Authors

Maria Cristina Pereira UFRJ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-9126.2017v11n20p119

Keywords:

Medievalism, Gender, Photography.

Abstract

One of the first female photographers, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) is the author of hundreds of portraits and tableaux vivants. Although influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite movement, famous at her time, her tableaux vivants rend the artist’s own version of the Middle Ages – somewhat different from her contemporaries’: less heroic and more intimate, where women play some of the most important roles. In order to understand her ideas on these subjects, we will analyze here a group of pictures she took in 1874 to illustrate Alfred Tennyson’s poems on Arthurian tales The Idylls of the King (and also five other poems marked by the medieval revival). We will also make use of some comparisons with another set of images illustrating the same work: the 36 engravings made by the French illustrator Gustave Doré between 1867 and 1868.

Author Biography

Maria Cristina Pereira, UFRJ

Graduated in History at UFRJ, Master in Social History also at UFRJ and PhD in History at EHESS, Paris.

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