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Mariana

1851

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The story

Millais showed it in 1851, the year after his Christ in the House of His Parents was savaged, and Ruskin wrote in defence of the Brotherhood that same year. Mariana is Tennyson's version of the woman Angelo abandoned in Measure for Measure.

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Object details

Title: Mariana
Artist: John Everett Millais
Date: 1851
Culture: British
Medium: Oil on panel
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Tate Britain, London
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0172
Original image: 2260 × 2771 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

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John Everett Millais. Mariana. 1851. Tate Britain, London. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0172/