Mariana (painting)

Mariana (painting)

Infobox Painting


title = Mariana
artist =John Everett Millais
year=1851
height=59.7
width=49.5
type=Oil on wood (mahogany)
museum=Tate

"Mariana" is an oil-on-wood painting by John Everett Millais, completed in 1851. The image was based on the solitary Mariana from William Shakespeare’s play "Measure for Measure", written between 1601 and 1606. In the play, Mariana was be to be married, but was rejected when her dowry was lost in a shipwreck. The painting is regarded as an example of Millais' "precision, attention to detail, and stellar ability as a colorist".King, Sally. " [http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/millais/paintings/king1.html "Aweary" and Waiting: John Everett Millais's Mariana] ". English 156 / History of Art 152, Brown University, 2007. Retrieved on 21 October, 2007.]

When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, the display caption contained lines from Tennyson's "Mariana" (1830):

    She only said, 'My life is dreary,      He cometh not,' she said;    She said, 'I am aweary, aweary,'      I would that I were dead!'

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* [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=26762 Mariana 1851] . Tate Gallery display caption, July 2007.

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