the Early Iterations

Welcome to the Exhibition of The Early Iterations

Throughout this page, absorb the intricate history of how the fairy tale was carefully crafted and refined to tailor local and historical behaviors and demands.

Rotari, Pietro Antonio. “Young Woman Writing a Letter,” Norton Simon Museum, 1755, www.nortonsimon.org/art/detail/M.1979.18.P/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

Dulac, Edmund. “Sleeping Beauty.” Tales of Faerie, 25 July 2013, http://talesoffaerie.blogspot.com/2013/07/perceforest-early-sleeping-beauty.html. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

Zick, Alexander. “Dornröschen.” Fairy Tales Series: Sleeping Beauty, 11 Apr. 2022, https://www.byarcadia.org/post/fairy-tales-101-sleeping-beauty. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025. 

Modersohn-Becker, Paula. “Briar Rose.” Sleeping Beauty in Pictures, 14 Oct. 2012, https://topillustrations.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/sleeping-beauty-by-various-artists/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025. 

Collier, John. “The Sleeping Beauty.” Sleeping Beauty in Pictures, 14 Oct. 2012, https://topillustrations.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/sleeping-beauty-by-various-artists/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

Zmurko, Franciszek. “Lady Sleeping.” Sleeping Beauty in Pictures, 14 Oct. 2012, https://topillustrations.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/sleeping-beauty-by-various-artists/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025. 

Crane, Walter. “The Sleeping Beauty.” Sleeping Beauty in Pictures, 14 Oct. 2012, https://topillustrations.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/sleeping-beauty-by-various-artists/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

Anderson, Anne. “Old, Old Fairy Tales.” Sleeping Beauty in Pictures, 14 Oct. 2012, https://topillustrations.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/sleeping-beauty-by-various-artists/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

“Fates and Fays in Sleeping Beauty.” Blog Archives, 22 July 2019, https://writinginmargins.weebly.com/home/archives/07-2019#:~:text=%22Sun%2C%20Moon%20and%20Talia%22%20does%20not%20fit%20into%20the,leave%20the%20listener%20with%20questions. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

Kristin. “Perceforest: An Early Sleeping Beauty.” Tales of Faerie, 25 July 2013, https://talesoffaerie.blogspot.com/2013/07/perceforest-early-sleeping-beauty.html. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

Fay, Carolyn. “Sleeping beauty must die: The plots of Perrault’s ‘La belle au bois dormant.’” Marvels & Tales, vol. 22, no. 2, 2008, pp. 259–276, https://doi.org/10.1353/mat.2008.a258007.

“Briar-Rose (or Sleeping Beauty).” Briar-Rose (or Sleeping Beauty) - Text and Interpretation of the Fairy Tale, www.fairytales.pushpak.de/briar-rose.html. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.