Oval
Storyboard Text
- The fact that the narrator is injured leads him to enter with his servant, Pedro, in an old abandoned castle to take shelter while he recovers.
- He asks Pedro to close the blinds of the place and light a chandelier, so that he can devote himself to his contemplation until sleep takes over. Furthermore, he found under his pillow a book with criticisms and descriptions of the paintings, with which he entertains himself while he recovers.
- Castle
- the narrator moves the candelabrum to better read his book, which causes the candlelight to reveal an imperceptible portrait until now in a corner hidden by shadows. he looks at the painting, depicting a beautiful young woman about to become a woman.
- After observing the image one more moment, the narrator moves the calendar to its initial position to remove the cause of its "deep agitation" from his view. Then he opens the book to learn about its origin.
- Portrait
- the narrator discovers that the young woman was a maiden of extremely strange beauty, charming and cheerful, who falls in love and marries a talented and diligent painter who "had already found his girlfriend in art."
- One day, the husband asks the young woman to allow herself to be portrait and, although she dislikes the idea, the love for her husband is such that she lends herself to pose. as the painting progresses, he “faded the health and spirits of his wife. Finally, the painter applies his last brushstroke, contemplates the painting and realizes, horrified, what has happened: "This is, by the way, Life itself!" He exclaims, shocked, as he turns to his wife, now dead.
Over 30 Million Storyboards Created