Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane

Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane is a 1824 oil painting on canvas by Swiss painter Henry Fuseli. It depicts a scene from Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene in which the female knight Britomart frees Amoretta, a beautiful woman, from her captivity at the hands of Busirane, an evil sorcerer.

Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane
Artist	Henry Fuseli
Year	1824
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	183.5 cm × 153 cm (72.2 in × 60 in)
Location	Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurt

In Fuseli's painting, Britomart is swinging her sword as if to kill Busirane, but in the poem, Amoretta stops Britomart from slaying Busirane, as he is the only one who can break the magic which is holding her captive.^[1]

The painting has been in the collection of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, in Frankfurt, since 1957.^[2]

See also

• Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret, an 1833 painting by William Etty depicting the same scene

References

1. Drama und Theater 2018, p. 207.
2. Perels 1994, p. 42.

Sources

• Perels, Christoph (1994). "Das Frankfurter Goethe-Museum. Vom Gedenkzimmer zur Galerei der Goethezeit". Das Frankfurter Goethe-Museum zu Gast im Städel (in German). Mainz: Verlag Hermann Schmidt. pp. 8–17. ISBN 3-87439-311-9.
• "Katalogtexte". Füssli - Drama und Theater (in German). Italy: Prestel. 2018. ISBN 978-3-7913-5757-7.