“Frailty, thy name is woman.” The Death of Ophelia “Frailty, thy name is woman.”

“There is a willow grows askant the brook that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.” Ellina KevorkianOphelia 30 x 40 in.  acrylic and digital print on canvas John William Waterhouse, Blue Ophelia

Odilon Redon (1905) Odilon Redon (1905)

J.W. Waterhouse: Ophelia

Ophelia Antoine-Auguste -Ernest Hebert title :Ophelia III: If Death be Sweeter (1999)artist :Alexia Sinclair Ophelia Antoine-Auguste -Ernest Hebert

“Therewith fantastic garlands did she make of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples” Arthur Hughes, Ophelia, 1852 Arthur Hughes, Ophelia, 1852

Odilon Redon

J.W. Waterhouse Ophelia 1894 J.W. Waterhouse Ophelia 1894

Ophelia, Arthur Hughes

“There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,” Eugène Delacroix. The Death of Ophelia. 1843. Lithograph. Louvre, Paris, France To This Brook Ophelia Came

“When down her weedy trophies and herself fell in the weeping brook.” Eugène Delacroix. The Death of Ophelia. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France. Ophelia (1883) Alexandre Cabanel

“Her clothes spread wide, and mermaid-like a while they bore her up” W.G. Simmonds (1910) W.G. Simmonds (1910)

John Everett Millais, Ophelia "Ophelia", John Everett Millais John Everett Millais, Ophelia

John Grey, To Watch You Drown To Watch You Drown - John Grey John Grey, To Watch You Drown

Arthur Hughes' Ophelia ***Note the halo and facial lighting

David Helton, “Ophelia”

 

Ophelia and Death

“Her garments, heavy with their drink, pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay, to muddy death”

Harold Copping - Ophelia

Music: “Too, Too Solid Flesh,” Hamlet Soundtrack, by Carter Burwell, 2000.