![]() ![]() What could have led this young girl to take her own life? And whom does she depict? The title of the work itself reveals it: she is Ophelia, one of the protagonists of the Hamlet tragedy written by William Shakespeare between 16. ![]() ![]() John Everett Millais's Ophelia is one of the masterpieces of Pre-Raphaelite art, but it is also one of the most famous Shakespearean-themed paintings.Īmong the Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces, the Ophelia by John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896) in Tate Britain is in this writer’s opinion the most disturbing, for it depicts a beautiful young maiden, elegantly attired, drowning in the waters of a stream, and to render the scene with greater verisimilitude the painter had the model in the same pose immersed in a bathtub. ![]()
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