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17 de jun. de 2019 · I n Sir John Everett Millais’s well-known painting Ophelia, an otherworldly Elizabeth Siddal is depicted floating, flanked by untended foliage. Cloaked in flowers, the lifeless Shakespearean beauty limply grasps at her unraveled garland (perhaps in rigor mortis) – as an assortment of poppies, daisies, and petunias join her in death.
Its fame derives, of course, from the story of its model, the Pre-Raphaelite mascot Elizabeth Siddal, who lay wearing an antique brocade gown in a tin bath-tub to simulate Ophelia’s last moments. The bath water grew colder and colder and – so the tale goes – Lizzie contracted pneumonia, aptly foreshadowing her own untimely death as well as that of Shakespeare’s heroine.
10 de ene. de 2014 · Con tan sólo 32 años de edad, el 11 de febrero de 1862, Elizabeth Sidal se suicidaba tomando una sobredosis de láudano mientras su marido disfrutaba de una de sus amantes. Rossetti, quizás arrepentido, tuvo un gesto romántico al hacer enterrar junto al cadáver de su esposa los poemas manuscritos que él había escrito.
Fonti, risorse bibliografiche, siti su Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, Il vero amore non ci è concesso, a cura di Conny Stockhausen, Panda 2006 Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, "Di rivi e gigli". Poesie e lettere, traduzione e cura di Stefania Arcara, Bari, Palomar, 2009. Con testo a fronte.
18 de nov. de 2020 · Siddal was named after her mother. Her parents were Charles Crooke Siddal and Elizabeth Eleanor Evans. At the time of her birth in 1829, her father had a cutlery-making business, but around 1831 the family moved to a less salubrious area in south London, were the rest of Siddal siblings were born.
29 de sept. de 2023 · It wasn’t long before Siddal held the interest of other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. One artist, in particular, found himself fascinated with the red-headed stunner's appearance— Dante Gabriel Rossetti. As the co-founder of the famed group, it wasn't long before Elizabeth took advantage of her admirer's fanciful whim.
7 de sept. de 2021 · Elizabeth Siddal given fresh portrait. RashDash’s new theatre production honours the pre-Raphaelite by focusing on her own art and poetry – and shifting from tragedy into comedy. W an, pale ...
