Even if you’re not familiar with Elizabeth Siddal, you likely know the 19th-century paintings she modeled for, artworks in which she slipped into others’ tragedies. There’s Siddal as Ophelia drowning ...

Siddal is much better known as the Pre-Raphaelites’ ethereal, enigmatic muse and Rossetti’s wife. With tumbling auburn hair and a pale, delicate face, she perfectly embodied the group’s aesthetic ...

In I Wake Again, a new exhibit at the Delaware Art Museum, pieces by Holly Trostle Brigham ’88 spotlight the life and work of Pre-Raphaelite artist Elizabeth Siddal. Remembered by history primarily as ...

The forgotten fact of the matter is that Elizabeth Siddal was not just a swooner and a sigher, but a mover and a shaker. Her “fecundity of invention and facility are quite wonderful, much greater than ...

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the ...

She is most famous as the model for John Everett Millais's painting of Ophelia and many have drawn parallels between Siddal's own life and Hamlet's tragic rejected lover. "Here is a woman who is ...

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In 1849, Lizzie Siddal was plucked from obscurity to pose for some of the best-known painters of the Victorian art world. Now her tragic life story is being brought to the stage for the first time.

Pre-Raphaelite women: the untold story of Elizabeth Siddal, the women and families affected by exposure to asbestos, and a funding boost for women's cricket. Show more We hear the stories of the women ...

London’s Tate Britain opened a new exhibition last week entitled The Rossettis. It includes works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of the Pre-Raphaelite group of English artists and poets still usually ...

In 1849, Lizzie Siddal was plucked from obscurity to pose for some of the best-known painters of the Victorian art world. Now her tragic life story is being brought to the stage for the first time.