Looking for a painting!?

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im looking for a paint which i forgot the name and the artist. it is a portrait of a couple. The painting must be old and migt be from a scene from Shakespear's play.The red hair lady is on the horse, looking at a knight. The knight looks up the lady, standing straight beside the horse, his hand on his chest.

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The one that springs immediately to mind is:


Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci

http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=29

but the knight doesn't have his hand on his chest. Not Shakespeare either, but from the poem of the same name by Keats.

Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) also did a La Belle Dame Sans Merci, again, not hand on chest but almost...

http://www.artmagick.com/archive/artists/hughes/pic/1916.aspx

Why Was The Roaring Twenties A Bad Thing For Everyone?

Johnson

Why Is It Bad For Us?

I need to write an essay on it, i cant find some useful informations so far,

any good idea?

Thanks A lot

Answer
Pros and cons below:

Technology

John Logie Baird invents the first working television system. (1925)
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean (20 May-21 May 1927)
Penicillin is discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming. (1928)

Science

Great advances in quantum mechanics
Wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation
Werner Heisenberg formulates the uncertainty principle
Paul Dirac's unification of quantum mechanics with special relativity

War, peace and politics

Rise of communism after World War I
The Red Scare
Irish Civil War
Southern Ireland gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1922
Turkish War of Independence
Polish-Soviet war
First Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald formed in the United Kingdom
Kellogg-Briand Pact to end war

Economics

Economic boom ended by "Black Tuesday" (October 29, 1929); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression

Culture, religion

Youth culture of The Lost Generation; flappers, Charleston, bobbed hair
Prohibition â legal attempt to end consumption of alcohol in the USA
"The Jazz Age" â Jazz and jazz-influenced dance music widely popular
Rise of broadcast radio as an entertainment medium
Start of commercially viable "Talking Pictures" (motion pictures with sound tracks)
Beginning of surrealist movement
Beginning of the Art Deco movement
Fads such as dance marathons, mah-jongg, crossword puzzles and pole-sitting are popular

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