Venus Verticordia "Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The body of a beautiful woman floating lifeless in the emerald waters of a lake saturated with flowers. The pallor of his face evokes the dawn morning light and glass from his eyes, the reflection of sky in the infinity. This describes Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal immortalized in "Ophelia", the painting of Millais who love Shakespeare's verse, plasma on canvas the scene where the lady desperate for the love of Hamlet, he plunges into a river forever. But such feat in the eyes dazzle us, Lizzie Siddal meant that pose for hours in a tub of ice water, bringing the deterioration of his health during the rest of his life that led her to also become addicted to laudanum - drink opium derivative widely used in the nineteenth century. Go Heroin, even without knowing it. But where did this woman The most prominent painters of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood became his muse and inspiration, it is easy to see that they look almost angelic, the slenderness of her body, the delicate whiteness of her skin and rich copper red hair, induced painters to "withdraw" his hat shop where she worked as a vendor to get into the art world, giving wings to be deployed as much as the mystical imagination of remote medieval times as suggested.
Ophelia - John Everett Millais
When Dante Gabriel Rossetti met her, grabbed immediately, taking it as an exclusive model and lover. Lizzie and her mother called her, was not indifferent to the painter, but on the contrary, madly in love with him. After nine years, married and his life became a constant torment because of the continued infidelity of her lover, is told that one night when Rossetti came to have a sexual encounter with Fanny Cornforth, dubbed by the same artist, "The Elephanta "Lizzie sorry for the sadness, took an overdose of laudanum he finished killing her. Upon returning home after the treason committed, and to find his frail wife dead, the artist carried away by a sudden feeling of guilt by Lizzie decided to make the ultimate sacrifice of love buried tangled in the hair of his loved that fell on his cold and lifeless chest, poems dedicated to him, because in reality always loved her, as Dante with Beatrice.
After the early death of his muse for 32 years, the painter fell into drink and despair. However, encouraged by his friends, decides to dig up and publish poems, which was a big scandal for the time, not only for its own sake, but especially by the erotic content of the verses. His addiction continued and led to his death in April 1882.
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