# talesontuesday

We're leaving behind in 2022 & replacing it with Not necessarily any cheerier though!- indeed today's tale features tragic lovers- Paolo & Francesca from Dante's Inferno Canto V- depicted by Rossetti (x 2),Feuerbach & Noel Paton. More next week!

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2022-01-04

The final for 2021. Can we manage 4 Ophelias together? I think so! Contributions are by John Wood (1801-1870) James Sant (1820-1916), Joseph Kronheim (1810-1896) & Dorothy Primrose as 'Ophelia' by Stephen Makepeace ('Siegfried') Wiens (1937, Worthing Art Gall.)

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2021-12-28

Strike a pose.... A rather staged and lounging Ophelia by Victor Müller (c.1869 Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main) for this week's "Melancholy, elegiac, blasé, unhappy, in short: quite curious,” is apparently how Müller described his work...

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2021-12-07

This week's it's the tragic heroine from a female perspective by Maria Spilsbury (c.1800), Marie Berthe Mouchel (1915) & Henrietta Rae (detail, 1890) plus a poster for the 2018 Ophelia film now playing on Netflix, a telling of “Hamlet” from Ophelia’s point of view

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2021-11-23

Lily-Pad or Billowing Angel? This week's Ophelia is by W.G Simmonds (1910, an illustration from an edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet owned by the Huntington Library) for

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2021-11-09

Can we make our Ophelias last until Christmas for It's a challenge. This week's lily white offering amid the lily pond (1890, private collection) is by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911).

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2021-11-02

This week perhaps the most famous of all Victorian Ophelias for
Indeed just typing 'Millais' into Google, the word Ophelia comes up 1st choice! (1852 & )
'When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide'

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2021-08-24