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life-imitates-art-far-more · 4 months

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Charles-Amable Lenoir (1860-1926) "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time") Oil on canvas

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lionofchaeronea · 8 months

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Dante and Beatrice, Salvatore Postiglione (1861-1906)

#art #art history #Salvatore Postiglione #literary painting #illustration #Divine Comedy #la divina commedia #Dante #Dante Alighieri #Dante and Beatrice #Beatrice Portinari #Realism #Realist art #Italian Realism #Italian art #19th century art #oil on canvas

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pagansphinx · 8 months

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Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833-1898) • Sidonia Von Bork

Sidonia Von Bork, based on the 1849 gothic novel Sidonia the Sorcess by Lady Wilde.

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Sidonia von Borcke (1548–1620) was a Pomeranian noblewoman who was tried and executed for witchcraft in the city of Stettin (today Szczecin, Poland). In posthumous legends, she is depicted as a femme fatale, and she has entered English literature as Sidonia the Sorceress.

#edward burne jones #art #painting #fine art #art history #women in paintings #19th century art #pre raphaelite #literary painting #british painter #british artist #aesthecism #symbolism #witchcraft

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uhhgoodd · 1 year

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The Knight of the Flowers by Georges Rochegrosse (1894)

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thepaintedroom · 2 months

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Charles Robert Leslie (British/English, 1794–1859) • 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', Act III, Scene 3 • Unknown date • Royal Shakespeare Theater

#art #fine art #painting #art history #charles robert leslie #british/english artist #literary painting #artwork #oil painting #genre painting #dogs in artworks #music in artworks #the painted room art blog #art lovers on tumblr #paintings of interiors #paintings of domestic interiors #art blogs on tumblr #shakespeare play

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artgate-blog · 4 months

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Henry Fuseli

the dream of queen Katherine

#henry fuseli #romanticism #mythological painting #mythology #art #painting #art history #lady #literary painting

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qalaphyll · 1 year

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“Judith II” by Gustav Klimt (1909)

#judith #judith II #gustav klimt #klimt #biblical #art noveau #symbolism #modern #art #artwork #painting #oil painting #literary painting

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larobeblanche · 8 months

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William Holman Hunt • Isabella and the Pot of Basil • 1868 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Keats’ Isabella or the Pot of Basil (published in 1820) is based on a story from the Renaissance author Boccaccio’s Decameron. It explores the traditional theme of star-crossed lovers. The poem tells the tragic tale of Isabella and Lorenzo, who is employed by Isabella’s brothers. Unhappy with the blossoming love between the pair, the brothers send Lorenzo on a trip and have him killed, but Lorenzo appears to Isabella as a ghost and tells her where to find his body. Isabella digs up the body, cuts off Lorenzo’s head and buries it in a pot of basil, which she waters with her tears. Eventually her brothers become suspicious, steal the pot, and flee. Isabella goes mad with grief and dies. Like the narratives of so many Victorian paintings, the course of true love does not run smoothly.

~ Khan Academy, khanacademy.org

#william holman hunt #pre raphaelite #pre raphaelism #women in white #la robe blanche #art #painting #19th century art #white dress #women in paintings #british painter #achromaticaddict #john keats #literary painting

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stigmatam4rtyr · 8 months

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The Death of Ophelia (1838, oil on canvas) | Eugene Delacroix

#art #fine art #painting #oil painting #19th century #the death of ophelia #eugene delacroix #literary painting

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ahaura · 11 months

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John William Waterhouse (English, 1849–1917) Miranda 1916 oil on canvas, 60 × 45.7 cm

#john william waterhouse #english art #english artist #romanticism #literary painting #painting #art #**a #**

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liturgical-agenda · 2 years

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Frederick Sandys, Medea, 1868

#frederick sandys #medea #art #painting #oil painting #romanticism #mythological painting #literary painting #british #norwich school

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life-imitates-art-far-more · 4 months

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Thomas Sully (1783-1872) "Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire" (1843) Oil on canvas Located in the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, United States

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lionofchaeronea · 9 months

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Dante and Virgil Encounter Paolo and Francesca, Giuseppe Fraschieri, 1846

#art #art history #Giuseppe Fraschieri #literary painting #illustration #Dante #Divine Comedy #Dante's Inferno #Francesca da Rimini #Italian art #19th century art #oil on canvas #Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna Savona #Dante Alighieri

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pagansphinx · 4 months

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The Many Faces of Ophelia

John Everett Millais • Ophelia • 1851–52 • Tate Britain, London

Millais's painting depicts Ophelia, a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river.

Pierre Auguste Cot ( French, 1837-1883) • Ophelia (Pause for Thought) • 1870 • Private collection

Another haunting version of Ophelia belongs to the French portraitist Pierre Auguste Cot, well-known for his portraits and romantic scenes. The painting is not a direct illustration of Hamlet, but rather a glimpse into the dark and terrifying mind of Ophelia after Hamlet refused to marry her and then killed her father Polonius. What might seem to be an innocent look of a young maiden, looks downright creepy and unsettling, hinting at Ophelia’s soon-to-come decision to take her own life out of grief and madness.

Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916) • Ophelia Among the Flowers • c. 1905-08 • National Gallery, London

Redon’s version of the story is in no way an illustration of the original text written by Shakespeare, but rather a dreamlike impression of it.

Ophelia • Sarah Bernhardt • 1880

Sarah Bernhardt's version, perhaps too idealized to be a direct reference to Shakespeare’s text but nevertheless has one important feature. If we look at the photographs of Bernhardt, we can recognize her own facial features in her depiction of Ophelia. In fact, Bernhardt did play Ophelia on stage in 1886, only six years after making the piece. During the production, she insisted on developing her role further. Instead of the death of Ophelia being indicated by a closed coffin carried out to the stage, Bernhardt was brought to the public, playing a lifeless body herself.

Paul Albert Steck ( 1866-1924) • Ophelia • 1895 • Musées de Paris

John William Waterhouse (British) • Ophelia • 1910 • Private collection

"Her clothes, stretched out, carrying her like a nymph; which time she chanted snatches of songs he sang as if knew not troubles or was born in the element of water; so to last could not, and apparel, hard upivshis, unhappy from the sounds of dragged into the quagmire of death." ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet