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  • Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    Francesco Hayez (Italian, 1791–1882)

    A final embrace, desperate and tender. The dim light catches their intertwined hands, the dagger’s gleam. Love and fate collide in this silent moment—Shakespeare’s tragedy made flesh, frozen in brushstrokes. No words, just the weight of what’s lost.

  • Hamlet And Ophelia (1873)

    Hamlet And Ophelia (1873)

    Hugues Merle (French, 1823–1881)

    Hamlet grips Ophelia’s wrist, his gaze burning with accusation. She recoils, fingers clutching wilted flowers—a silent plea drowned in his fury. The air between them thickens with unspoken betrayal, a scene ripped straight from Shakespeare’s darkest verse. Love and madness collide in a single, devastating glance.

  • Ophelia (1906)

    Ophelia (1906)

    Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)

    Ophelia floats, pale among the water lilies. Her hair fans out like dark roots, tangled with blossoms. The pond swallows her slowly—petals drift where breath should be. Shakespeare’s drowned girl becomes weightless here, sinking through green shadows into something quieter than sleep.

  • Juliet (1898)

    Juliet (1898)

    John William Waterhouse (British, 1849-1917)

    John William Waterhouse’s 1898 painting “Juliet” portrays the innocence and melancholy of Shakespeare’s heroine.