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Sigismunda Mourning over Heart Guiscardo
Bequeathed by J.H. Anderdon 1879
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
birth to death
body
box
clothing and personal items
domestic
Dryden, John, ‘Fables’
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
family
fine arts and music
furnishings
goblet
grief
head / face
head in hand / hands
heart
Hogarth, Jane
Hogarth, William
horror
individuals: female
interior - non-specific
interiors
jewellery
kitchen
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
man
mourning
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weeping
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work and occupations
<p>This painting illustrates a dramatic scene from Giovanni Boccaccio’s celebrated medieval novel, the <i>Decameron</i>. The heroine Sigismunda holds a golden goblet sent to her by her father, Prince Tancred. Inside, is the heart of her dead husband, Giuscardo – one of Tancred’s servants. He has murdered him, enraged by their unsuitable secret marriage.This was Hogarth’s most deliberate attempt to prove that modern English painters could handle heroic themes as convincingly as the revered Italian old masters. But the picture received such harsh criticism that he almost completely abandoned painting for the last years of his life.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
22 May 2003 – 21 September 2003
2003-09-21
22 May 2003 – 21 September 2003
2003-09-21
2003-05-22
Haus der Kunst (Munich, Germany)
2003-05-22
All the World's a Stage
Loan-out
18 October 2006 – 7 January 2007
2007-01-07
18 October 2006 – 7 January 2007
2007-01-07
2006-10-18
Musée du Louvre (Paris, France)
21 May 2007 – 26 August 2007
2007-08-26
2007-05-21
CaixaForum Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
http://www3.lacaixa.es
2006-10-18
Hogarth
Loan-out
7 February 2007 – 29 April 2007
2007-04-29
18 October 2006 – 7 January 2007
2007-01-07
2006-10-18
Musée du Louvre (Paris, France)
7 February 2007 – 29 April 2007
2007-04-29
2007-02-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
21 May 2007 – 26 August 2007
2007-08-26
2007-05-21
CaixaForum Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
http://www3.lacaixa.es
2007-02-07
Hogarth
Exhibition
20 October 2014 – 31 August 2015
2015-08-31
1 May 2015 – 31 August 2015
2015-08-31
2015-05-01
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (Bristol, UK)
http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk
2014-10-20
Hogarth display
Loan-out
24 October 2014 – 26 April 2015
2015-04-26
20 October 2014 – 26 April 2015
2015-04-26
2014-10-20
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-10-24
William Hogarth
Collection based display
Sigismunda Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo
support: 1004 × 1265 mm
frame: 1530 × 1700 × 170 mm
Bequeathed by J.H. Anderdon 1879
<p>This painting illustrates a dramatic scene from Giovanni Boccaccio’s celebrated medieval novel, the <i>Decameron</i>. The heroine Sigismunda holds a golden goblet sent to her by her father, Prince Tancred. Inside, is the heart of her dead husband, Giuscardo – one of Tancred’s servants. He has murdered him, enraged by their unsuitable secret marriage.This was Hogarth’s most deliberate attempt to prove that modern English painters could handle heroic themes as convincingly as the revered Italian old masters. But the picture received such harsh criticism that he almost completely abandoned painting for the last years of his life.</p>

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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults artist, painter arts and entertainment birth to death body box clothing and personal items domestic Dryden, John, ‘Fables’ emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas family fine arts and music furnishings goblet grief head / face head in hand / hands heart Hogarth, Jane Hogarth, William horror individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors jewellery kitchen literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) man mourning named individuals objects people portraits sculpture self-portraits sitting society table veil vessels and containers weeping widow woman work and occupations