Ligeia Siren

Ligeia Siren is a chalk drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti completed in 1873. The painting depicts a siren, a creature from classical Greek mythology, familiar from tales such as Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Georgics. The drawing is predominantly inspired from Rossetti's own 1869 libretto The Doom of the Sirens, in which Ligeia is one of the female leads. Instead of depicting the traditional encounter of the siren with her victims, who, entranced by her beauty and powers of music, are doomed to a terrible fate, Rossetti depicts a timeless moment, where, contrary to the depiction in his libretto, she appears tranquil and impassive to her intended victims in the background.

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