图片尺寸：2940 x 4578 像素
作品名称：The Fisherman and the Syren.
中文名称：渔夫和塞壬
创作者：弗雷德里克·莱顿 Frederic Leighton
创作年代：1857
风格：学院派
体裁：神话画
材质：布面油画
现位于：Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
实际尺寸：48.9 x 66.4 cm
版权信息：Public Domain（公有領域）
作品介绍
机器翻译
弗雷德里克-莱顿是唯一被提升为贵族的艺术家。他在48岁时就成为皇家学院的院长，是维多利亚时代艺术机构和古典学派的支柱。这幅早期的作品既为歌德的一首诗作了插图，也受到了该诗的启发，该诗讲述了一个美人鱼从水中浮起，向渔夫抱怨他正在引诱她的孩子们去死。渐渐地，美人鱼自己的美貌将渔夫引诱到水中，并使其忘乎所以。一位当代评论家指出，美人鱼具有“不可抗拒的诱惑力”，但他也注意到，这位“年轻的艺术家显然长期而热切地饮用了为莱昂纳多、米开朗基罗和拉斐尔解渴的美之泉”。正是本着这种精神，莱顿才会受到如此的推崇。他被视为这一伟大传统的继承者，他的作品通过其关联性，似乎让这个时代变得更有尊严。
原文
Frederic Leighton is the only artist to have been elevated to the peerage. At the early age of 48 he became president of the Royal Academy and a pillar of the Victorian art establishment and the classical school. This early work both illustrated and was inspired by a poem by Goethe, which tells the story of a mermaid who rises from the waters to complain to a fisherman that he is enticing her children to death. Gradually the mermaid’s own beauty lures the fisherman into the water and to oblivion. A contemporary critic noted the ‘irresistible seductiveness’ of the mermaid but he observed also that this ‘young artist has plainly drunk long and eagerly at the fount of beauty that assuaged the thirst of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael’. It was in exactly that spirit that Leighton was to be so much admired.He was seen as the successor to that great tradition and his work, by its associations, seemed to dignify the age.
