Ophelia painting aesthetic

“And the poet says that by starlight You come seeking, in the night, the flowers that you picked And that he has seen on the water, lying in her long veils White Ophelia floating, like a great lily. ~ Arthur Rimbaud 🎨 Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser”

“White dresses in paintings by Joseph Karl Stieler and Franz Xaver Winterhalter.”

The inflexible conventions of classical art, combined with the social unrest that was arising as a result of large-scale industrialization set the scene in the mid-19th century for a rebellious group of young artists to express their discontent through an art movement they formed called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. #preraphaelite #preraphaelitebrotherhood #preraphaelites #arthistory #artincontext

Ferdinand Piloty II - Ophelia | Pre raphaelite paintings, Pre raphaelite art, Art uk

Original Acrylic Tori Playford Art - Ophelia in the Water

#ophelia #wallpaper

lonequixote: John Everett Millais Ophelia (detail) (via @lonequixote)

Forbidden love 🌛 #medieval #knight #renaissance #