Description
"Isabella and the Pot of Basil (1907)" by John William Waterhouse
The Florentine maiden Isabella is in love with Lorenzo, who was a clerk for her two brothers. They murder the young man and bury him in a forest, but he appears to Isabella in a vision and tells her where to find his corpse. She exhumes his head and hides it in a pot of sweet basil, sustaining the increasingly vigorous plant with her tears, a particularly intimate form of the feminine element of water. Having discovered Isabella's secret, her brothers steal the pot, so Isabella withers and dies, having lost her beauty and sanity through obsessive grief.
John Waterhouse’s paintings from this period reflect his deep and fluent engagement with narratives from both the romantic and classical traditions.
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Color Changing Fine Art Print
Painter: John William Waterhouse
Composition by: EFX Gallery
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