First published in The Irish Examiner for International Women’s Day In 1852, a young woman named Lizzie Siddal lay in a bathtub of ice water while John Everett Millais painted her as Ophelia. You know the painting I’m talking about. A red-haired woman lies listlessly in a river, her hands and face just barely breaking the water’s surface. She is breathlessly fragile, and being swept along in the most exquisite rendition of drowning that art has ever known.
Exquisite Renditions of Drowning
Exquisite Renditions of Drowning
Exquisite Renditions of Drowning
First published in The Irish Examiner for International Women’s Day In 1852, a young woman named Lizzie Siddal lay in a bathtub of ice water while John Everett Millais painted her as Ophelia. You know the painting I’m talking about. A red-haired woman lies listlessly in a river, her hands and face just barely breaking the water’s surface. She is breathlessly fragile, and being swept along in the most exquisite rendition of drowning that art has ever known.