| "The Bacchante" (also titled "The Tambourine Player")
by Lord Frederic Leighton was painted in 1895, a year before his death. A
popular Victorian painter and sculptor, Leighton was interested in Hellenism,
and often portrayed themes from Greek mythology.The poet Algernon Swinburne composed a memorial elegy: 'A light has passed that never shall pass away. A sun has set whose rays are unequalled in might'. |
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