The Mysterious Picture

THE MYSTERIOUS PICTURE

UMA B.L REG. NO. 16514300017 GCTE, THYCAUD

Let’s have a look at some

famous paintings……..

MONA LISA - Leonardo Da

Vinci

DAMAYANTI - Raja Ravi

Varma

THE LAST SUPPER- LEONARDO DA VINCI

THE STARRY NIGHT

- VINCENT VAN GOGH

PIETA -

Michelangelo

THE HAUNTING MOON

- M.F Hussain

Have a close look at this picture…….

Isn’t the picture mysterious ??

Have you noticed……..

the head of an old man ?

a lady with a baby?

an old man ?

Today we are going to study a new lesson on the theme of art.

The name of the lesson is ‘The Mysterious Picture’ by Charles De Coster.

Charles De Coster (1827-1879)

• Father of Belgian Literature

• Born in Munich

• Major work : The Legend of Tyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak

‘The Mysterious Picture’ is an interesting story from Charles De Coster’s The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel.

It narrates an interesting episode from the life of an artist named Tyl.

MAIN CHARACTERS

• Tyl

• The Captain of the Guards

• The Archduke

• The Courtiers

CHARACTER OF TYL A painter from Flanders.

He looks like a skeleton.

He wore a cap with three bright

feathers on it.

CHARACTER OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS

Tall, well- built, red- haired man of about twenty five.

Was handsomely dressed in his gold- braided uniform.

COME, LET’S HAVE A LOOK AT THE

DIFFICULT WORDS………………….

Dismount – to get off a horse, bicycle or motor cycle

Loafer – a person

who wastes his time

instead of working

SCAFFOLDING QUESTIONS

Where do the events in the story take place ? Flanders

Mention the two central characters you identify at this point of the story.

TylThe Captain of the

Guards

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY

Pick out the suffixed words from the first four paragraphs of the lesson.

THANK YOU