Mariana, Measure for Measure, III-1. Mariana is an 1851 oil-on-panel painting by John Everett Millais.
The image depicts the solitary Mariana from William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, as retold in Tennyson's 1830 poem Mariana. The painting is regarded as an example of Millais's precision, attention to detail, and stellar ability as a colorist.
It has been held by Tate Britain since 1999. In Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, written between 1601 and 1606, Mariana was a woman who was about to be married, but she was rejected by her fiancé Angelo when her dowry was lost in the shipwreck that also killed her brother.
She retreated to a solitary existence in a moated house. Five years later, Angelo was tricked into consummating their betrothal.
Tennyson retold the tale in his 1830 poem Mariana, and returned to it in his 1832 poem Mariana in the South. Millais was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English artists who came together in 1848 with the goal of renewing British painting. They found in the art of the early Italian Renaissance, before Raphael, a sincerity of purpose and clarity of form that they sought to emulate. The Pre-Raphaelites frequently used allegorical images to create a narrative to teach a moral virtue or virtues, and sometimes used contemporary literature as inspiration for their paintings, which often include numerous details that allow the viewer to read the pa
The image depicts the solitary Mariana from William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, as retold in Tennyson's 1830 poem Mariana. The painting is regarded as an example of Millais's precision, attention to detail, and stellar ability as a colorist.
It has been held by Tate Britain since 1999. In Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, written between 1601 and 1606, Mariana was a woman who was about to be married, but she was rejected by her fiancé Angelo when her dowry was lost in the shipwreck that also killed her brother.
She retreated to a solitary existence in a moated house. Five years later, Angelo was tricked into consummating their betrothal.
Tennyson retold the tale in his 1830 poem Mariana, and returned to it in his 1832 poem Mariana in the South. Millais was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English artists who came together in 1848 with the goal of renewing British painting. They found in the art of the early Italian Renaissance, before Raphael, a sincerity of purpose and clarity of form that they sought to emulate. The Pre-Raphaelites frequently used allegorical images to create a narrative to teach a moral virtue or virtues, and sometimes used contemporary literature as inspiration for their paintings, which often include numerous details that allow the viewer to read the pa
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