Serena's Literary Diary- "Phaedra" by Jean Racine

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One in an occasional series of dreams based upon my reading. (I'm an avid bookworm). My thanks are due to Unicorngraphics for their "Literary Masterpieces" series, which was my inspiration.

A hyper-realistic painting of a distraught young woman in a reddish-brown and orange full-length gown with gold trim, gold wrist bracelets, and a gold decorative headband, grasping the bicep of a young man, who is looking away from her. She has fair skin, dark curly hair tied up, and looks up with her mouth slightly agape in a pleading expression. She wears small gold hoop earrings. The young man, with curly light brown hair, is dressed in a beige full-length tunic with blue trim on the sleeves and hem, and cross-body leather straps holding a quiver of arrows on his back and a smaller container of arrows by his hip. He shows an intense expression of concern. He has fair skin and a muscular build. Both figures are positioned in the foreground, in a stoic style reminiscent of Rococo art. In the mid-ground, a stone portico with large Doric columns frames a view of a lush green landscape with trees, under a gloomy sky. In the mid-ground to the right, a wooden table holds a large brown ceramic pot, and rolls of parchment. In the background a white city with white buildings and houses under a hill, overlooks a bay with the sea under a