Song of Songs (1)

Song of Songs from the Old Testament has a specific place in my life. In this post I will only share some masterpieces that were inspired by this poem, In some future texts I will write about many interpretations of it's meaning and about other works of art based on Song of songs (such as a wonderful novel by Alexandr Kuprin named "Shulamith", a lyrical reconstruction of how the poem might have been created).

Gustave Moreau, The Song of Songs, 1893.

Gustave Moreau, Song of Songs, 1853.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Beloved, 1865

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Rose of Sharon, 1860
(Check out other illustrations of the Bible by Schnorr - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Die_Bibel_in_Bildern)