{"id":2014048,"date":"2025-09-11T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2014048"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:22:59","slug":"when-the-artist-almost-killed-his-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/when-the-artist-almost-killed-his-model\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Artist Almost Killed His Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4QerJOjHqYM?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The model who posed for John Everett Millais\u2019 Ophelia almost lost her life\u2026 While recreating the tragic drowning of Shakespeare\u2019s heroine, Elizabeth Siddal spent hours in a bathtub of freezing water. She fell gravely ill, and the incident became one of the most dramatic behind-the-scenes stories in art history.<\/p>\n<p>Ophelia (1851\u20131852) is more than a faithful illustration of Shakespeare\u2019s tragedy. It is a masterpiece of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, filled with symbolism and natural detail.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we will explore every detail of this painting and discover why it is considered a true masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Shop &#8220;Ophelia&#8221; (1852) at &#8211; https:\/\/www.inspiraggio.com\/products\/ophelia-john-everett-millais-pintor-informacion-1852<br \/>\n\u25ba Shop Art Prints &#038; Canvas at &#8211; https:\/\/www.inspiraggio.com\/collections\/shop-all<br \/>\n\u25ba Shop Fine Art Phone Cases at &#8211; https:\/\/www.inspiraggio.com\/collections\/iphone-cases<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Follow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/inspiraggio<br \/>\n\u2192 Contact: hello@inspiraggio.com<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n1:00 Who Was Ophelia<br \/>\n1:46 The Position of Her Hands<br \/>\n2:15 Act IV of Hamlet<br \/>\n3:13 The Setting of the Painting<br \/>\n4:07 Symbolism<br \/>\n4:50 The Model<br \/>\n5:21 John Everett Millais and the Pre-Raphaelites<br \/>\n6:05 Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>#arthistory #art <\/p>\n<p>Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for \u201cfair use\u201d for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4QerJOjHqYM\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The model who posed for John Everett Millais\u2019 Ophelia almost lost her life\u2026 While recreating the tragic drowning of Shakespeare\u2019s heroine, Elizabeth Siddal spent hours in a bathtub of freezing water. She fell gravely ill, and the incident became one of the most dramatic behind-the-scenes stories in art history. Ophelia (1851\u20131852) is more than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2014049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757593378_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}