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Description: | Juliet wakes from her drugged sleep in the tomb to find Romeo dead. Juliet sits up on top of tomb. She and the tomb are swathed in diaphenous white shroud. She has long dark hair and wears a white dress with flowers around her head. Romeo half sits, half lies against the tomb with dealthly pallor. He has dark shoulder length 'medieval' hair and wears a short, russet coloured, velvet tunic with brown hose and a dagger at his waist. His brown velvet cloak falls open showing yellow silk lining. A gold crucifix with a polychrome Jesus in the upper right of the composition. Dark crypt architecture with richly painted lower walls in gold, blue and red. The lower part of Juliet's tomb in engraved in Latin. A circular metal ring in the foreground indicates the entrance to tombs. Very smooth, glass-like finish. Light centres around the figure of Juliet and Romeo's deathly white face. | Subjects: | Romeo and Juliet) literature (Shakespeare | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Piloty, Ferdinand II (German artist, 1828-1895) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8472... | Go to resource |
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