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.

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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

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

gramarye: 1. (archaic) Mystical learning; the occult, magic, sorcery. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gramarye

___________________________ 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