Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret is an oil painting on canvas by English
artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1833. Intended to illustrate the
virtues of honour and chastity, it depicts a scene from Edmund Spenser's
The Faerie Queene in which the female warrior Britomart slays the evil
magician Busirane and frees his captive, the beautiful Amoret. In
Spenser's poem Amoret has been tortured and mutilated by the time of her
rescue, but Etty portrayed her as unharmed. Despite its depiction of an
occult ritual, a violent death, a near-nude woman and strongly implied
sexual torture, Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret was uncontroversial on
its first exhibition in 1833 and was critically well received. In 1958
it was acquired by the Tate Gallery, and it remains in the collection of
Tate Britain.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britomart_Redeems_Faire_Amoret>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1868:
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,
including the Citizenship Clause and the Equal Protection Clause, was
ratified by the minimum required twenty-eight states.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>
1943:
World War II: The Allies began their invasion of Sicily
(American tank pictured), a large scale amphibious and airborne
operation, followed by six weeks of land combat.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily>
1958:
A 525 m (1,722 ft) high megatsunami, the highest ever
recorded, struck Lituya Bay, Alaska, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami>
2008:
Under the belief that Israel and the United States were
planning to attack its nuclear program, Iran conducted the Great Prophet
III missile test and war games exercise.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Prophet_III>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gramarye:
1. (archaic) Mystical learning; the occult, magic, sorcery.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gramarye>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful.
As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful,
and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be —
that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.
--June Jordan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/June_Jordan>