The Funeral of Shelley | Louis Edouard Fournier | 1889 Size:18"x12" guides mankind toward divine wisdom

guides mankind toward divine wisdom and celestial rewards

Two small figures walk ahead

while the rocky shoreline and forested slopes are gently illuminated

Burial of Saint Lucy is a painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio

The Funeral of Shelley | Louis Edouard Fournier | 1889 Size:18"x12" guides mankind toward divine wisdomPercy Bysshe Shelley, the Romantic poet, drowned in 1822. His yacht was wrecked in a storm in the Gulf of Spezzia, Italy. His body was cremated and his remains later buried at the Protestant cemetery in Rome. Fournier's painting shows the funeral pyre surrounded by three of the dead poet's closest friends. From left to right they are the author and adventurer Trelawny and Shelleys fellow poets Leigh Hunt and Byron. In Trelawny's own account of the