The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe | A Lifelike Painting and an Obsessive Artist

A wounded traveler discovers a painting that seems disturbingly alive in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Oval Portrait.” Sheltering in a remote château, he shifts a candle and reveals a young woman’s face in an ornate frame. A book beside his bed holds the portrait’s history: a devoted bride, a painter consumed by his work, and long sittings in an isolated tower. Henrique Couto narrates this Gothic horror story about love, obsession and the price of artistic perfection. What happened outside the frame while the artist pursued the perfect likeness?

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