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Beautiful death?
Sir John Everett Millais's Ophelia
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Designed to appeal to the dramatic in you. The English painter Sir
John Everett Millais drew his inspiration for Ophelia from a character
in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. In that play, sorrow and rejection
drive Ophelia mad. She drowns herself, while floating fully clad down
a brook. To capture that scene realistically, Millais required a model
to don an antique dress and float in a heated bathtub. |
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