Lily MacPhee as Rossetti’s Lady Lilith
“And round his heart one strangling golden hair”: Lily MacPhee as Rossetti’s Lady Lilith (1872-73), Delaware Art Museum
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Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” has long been believed to be cursed…
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Ophelia, weirdly alive at the moment of death, by Sir John Everett Millais (1851), Tate Britain
Read MoreBurning Man: Hilliard’s Man Against Flames
“The flames seemed to flicker and hiss”: Man against Flames, by Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1588), V&A, London
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“A face capable of both greatness and cruelty”: Queen Elizabeth I, the Plimpton “Sieve” Portrait at the Folger Shakespeare Library
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