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Ophelia is an 1851–52 painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais in the collection of Tate Britain, London. It depicts Ophelia , a character from William Shakespeare 's play Hamlet , singing before she drowns in a river.
The beautiful “unknown saint” of Hernandez’s radiant pastel drawing, a two-panel composition more than 7 feet wide, hovers in a horizontal space, floating like drowned Ophelia in John ...
The River Bank (Ophelia) is a 1980 painting by the English painter David Inshaw. The subject is from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It was made for a joint exhibition of the Brotherhood of Ruralists, where each artist made his own interpretation of the subject. Since 2015 it belongs to the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, Somerset.
Heartbroken, Ophelia is drawn toward the Sea of Black Tears, cursed waters that grant humans supernatural abilities at the cost of humanity. After leaping into the black waters, the Sea creates Drowned Ophelia, a dark doppelganger of Ophelia, who raises an army of other Black Tear-corrupted humans, the goth "Drowning Doom". After three months ...
Ophelia (/ oʊ ˈ f iː l i ə /) is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet (1599–1601). She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet. Due to Hamlet's actions, Ophelia ultimately enters into a state of madness that leads to her drowning.
For John Everett Millais's Ophelia, Siddal floated in a bathtub full of water to portray the drowning Ophelia. Millais painted daily through the winter, putting oil lamps under the tub to warm the water. On one occasion, the lamps went out and the water became icy cold. Millais, absorbed by his painting, did not notice and Siddal did not complain.
Ophelia is a 1894 oil on canvas painting by the English painter John William Waterhouse, [1] depicting a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet. She is a young noblewoman of Denmark , a potential wife for Prince Hamlet .
The painting depicts a scene taken from the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, when the female protagonist, Ophelia, driven by insanity, is about to commit suicide in a lake. This scene was often depicted by the romantic painters of the 19th century. In the painting, the girl is shown lie down, with her head thrown back, eyes weary, and her ...