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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.
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 .
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.
Frank Bridge wrote a symphonic poem for orchestra titled There is a willow grows aslant a brook, taken from the first line of Gertrude's monologue recounting Ophelia's death. [32] Dmitri Shostakovich's Incidental Music to Hamlet features a movement titled "Ophelia's Song", which depicts her descent into madness. [33]
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 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...
Kass received her BFA in Painting at Carnegie Mellon University (the alma mater of artist Andy Warhol), and studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program [6] Here, she created her first work of appropriation, Ophelia’s Death After Delacroix, a six by eight foot rendition of a small sketch by the French Romantic artist, Eugène Delacroix.
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