Tag: Shakespeare

Giuseppe Verdi

(1813–1901) Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi Works: • Aida (1871) • Attila (1846) • Don Carlos (1867) • Ernani (1844) • Falstaff (1893) • I due Foscari (1844) • Giovanna d’Arco (1845) • I Lombardi (1843) • Il corsaro (1848) •…

Benedetto Croce

(1866–1952) Works: • Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic (English) • Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille (English) • Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx (English) • Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept (English) • The…

Portia (1886)

Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Portia 1886 Oil on canvas, 125.1 x 83.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, the resourceful heroine Portia disguises herself in lawyer’s robes. Her intention is to outwit the…

Mariana (1851)

Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Mariana 1851 Oil on mahogany, 59.7 x 49.5 cm Tate Britain, London When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, this picture was accompanied by the following lines from Tennyson‘s Mariana (1830): She only said,…

Sir John Everett Millais

(1829–1896) Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, RA The artist’s works: Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas 1843 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Sketch for The Woodman’s Daughter 1850 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Mariana 1851 Tate Britain, London Ophelia 1851–1852 Tate Britain, London…

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

(1828–1882) Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti The artist’s works: Self-Portrait 1847 National Portrait Gallery, London Ecce Ancilla Domini 1850 Tate Britain, London Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Private collection Study for Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Tate Britain, London Paolo…

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

(1809–1892) Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS Works: • Beauties of Tennyson (English) • Becket and other plays (English) • Elaine (French) • Énide (French) • Enoch Arden, &c. (English) • Genièvre (French) • Idylls of the King (English) •…

Hamlet et sa mère (1849)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Hamlet et sa mère (Hamlet and His Mother) 1849 Oil on canvas, 27.3 x 18.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting depicts the moment in Shakespeare’s epic tragedy Hamlet in which the protagonist, who has been…

Othello et Desdémone (1847-1849)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Othello et Desdémone (Othello and Desdemona) 1847–1849 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 62.2 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Desdemona maudite par son père c.1852 Brooklyn Museum, New York     See also: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Desdemona maudite par son père (c.1852)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Desdemona maudite par son père (Desdemona Cursed by her Father) c.1852 Oil on cradled panel, 40.6 x 32.1 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Othello et Desdémone 1847–1849 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa     See…