In the mid 19th century Pre-Raphaelitism emerged as the first Avant-Garde movement in British paintings, responding agains the strict academic conventions, three very idealistic young students from the Royal Academy- William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), John Everett Millais (1829-1896), and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) who were passionate about art, concerned by the very conventional state of the art world, which they considered vulgar and idealistically desirous of bringing about dramatic changes, who wanted to "turn the minds of men to good reflection",

 

This project is inspired by Ophelia the picture of John Everett Millais. This is the best-known image of Lizzi Sidal and one that is remarkably suitable for a woman whose life ended so sadly and not very differently from the Shakespearian doomed heroine