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8 de oct. de 2022 · The famous Ophelia (1851–1852) oil-on-canvas was painted by John Everett Millais, who was part of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art group, and one of its founders. The painting depicts the moment Ophelia is about to drown, surrounded by a myriad of flowers symbolizing aspects of what she experienced, from life and love to death.
Ophelia. John Everett Millais Around 1851. Tate Britain. London, Regno Unito. This is the drowning Ophelia from Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Picking flowers she slips and falls into a stream. Mad with grief after her father's murder by Hamlet, her lover, she allows herself to die. The flowers she holds are symbolic: the poppy means death, daisies ...
22 de mar. de 2018 · Il dipinto intitolato Ofelia (Ophelia) di John Everett Millais fu donato alla Tate Gallery da Sir Henry Tate nel 1894. L’artista e la società. La storia dell’opera Ofelia (Ophelia) di John Everett Millais. John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti con altri giovani artisti fondarono nel 1848 la Confraternita Preraffaellita. Gli ideali ...
John Everett Millais, Ofelia (1851 circa; alla Tate Britain). Le opere giovanili di Millais vennero realizzate secondo la poetica dei preraffaelliti e tutti o quasi furono oggetto di violente controversie da parte dei critici. Tra i più criticati, spicca senza dubbio Cristo nella casa dei genitori (titolo originale: Christ in the House of his Parents) del 1850, che sconvolse pubblico e ...
3 de jul. de 2020 · English artist John Everett Millais (1829-1896) began painting Ophelia in 1851—just three years after he, William Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.. From a young age, Millais was trained as a traditional painter. At just eleven years old, he became the youngest student admitted to the prestigious Royal Academy Schools.
Sir John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of his Parents, 1849-50, oil on canvas, 86.4 x 139.7 cm (Tate Britain, London) Ophelia proved to be a more successful painting for Millais than some of his earlier works, such as Christ in the House of his Parents. It had already been purchased when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1852.
Here, Hamlet’s rejected lover, her mind unhinged, has fallen into a brook while picking wildflowers. Inspired by an evocative description of Ophelia’s death in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (act 4, scene 7), Millais painted the subject for a London Royal Academy exhibition in 1852; this masterful print reproduces that composition.
