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The Flight of Florimell
Painting by Washington Allston From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Flight of Florimell is an 1819 oil painting by the American artist Washington Allston. It depicts a scene from The Faerie Queene by the Elizabethan Era English poet Edmund Spenser.[1][2] Romantic in style, it is distinctly Gothic in tone with a frightened heroine being pursued on horseback.[3]
Today the painting is in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan, having been acquired in 1944.[4]
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