Ophelia by John Everett Millais (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images) Two-and-a-half centuries after William Shakespeare’s Hamlet came to the stage, the tragic-romantic figure of Ophelia ...
Following a successful international tour, the Tate Britain’s pre-Raphaelite paintings have come back to the museum, The Telegraph reports. The works being returned include masterpieces such as ...
It was 1851, and the 22-year-old Millais was using a small section of the Hogsmill River as the background for his painting of the Shakespearean heroine who went mad and drowned. Millais would soon ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - John Everett Millais, famous for his painting of Hamlet's drowning sweetheart Ophelia, has long been popular with the crowds, but maligned among connoisseurs as the man who ...
In seven minutes, Taylor Swift resurrects four centuries of dead women in water. Her self-directed "The Fate of Ophelia" music video, from her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, pulls from ...
Almost 160 years after the work’s completion in 1852, Barbara Webb has pin-pointed the location where Millais sat to paint the background to the work. She conducted 18 months of research before ...
Just a few weeks ago, the Italian fashion label Gucci sent models down the runway with subtle references to Renaissance art. Models casually held hyper-realistic severed heads and dragons, a ...
Don't miss out on the headlines from Today in History. Followed categories will be added to My News. It was 1851, and the 22-year-old Millais was using a small section of the Hogsmill River as the ...
It was 1851, and the 22-year-old Millais was using a small section of the Hogsmill River as the background for his painting of the Shakespearean heroine who went mad and drowned. Millais would soon ...