Ossian In Fingal Cave

oil on canvas from the end of the 18th early 19th century representing the myth of Ossian with the blind beard singing the epic of valiant warriors in the cave of Fingal. further research would be interesting to determine the painter of the time In 1761, the young poet James MacPherson published Fingal, an epic which he said was composed by Ossian, a Scottish bard of the 3rd century CE. MacPherson says he translated this epic from Gaelic, found from collections of popular songs in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Although controversies quickly erupted over the authenticity of the epic, a wave of "Ossianophilia" swept across Europe. The Ossian world is a great source of inspiration for writers and painters at the dawn of romanticism,