Thursday, 1 October 2015

Names of Pre-Raphaelites and information on the famous painting Ophilia


  • William Holman Hunt 
  • Sir John Everett Millais 
  • Dante Gabrial Rosetti




Ophilia
Ophelia,was a potential wife from the play Hamlet one of Shakespeare's plays Act 4 and in the painting it depicts the point where she kills herself in a brook by a road when her lover kills her father
The painting is one of the most famous paintings by John Millais.
Crow flowers in the foreground look similar to buttercups and they symbolise childishness they are noted in they play for their symbolic meanings and daffodills are also meant to be in the paintings are suggested to symbolise false hope. Some people also believe there is a skull hidden in the painting, however it might just be light and shading in the painting







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