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Isabella and the Pot of Basil is a painting completed in 1868 by William Holman Hunt depicting a scene from John Keats's poem Isabella, or the Pot of Basil. It depicts the heroine Isabella caressing the basil pot in which she had buried the severed head of her murdered lover Lorenzo.

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  • Isabella and the Pot of Basil is a painting completed in 1868 by William Holman Hunt depicting a scene from John Keats's poem Isabella, or the Pot of Basil. It depicts the heroine Isabella caressing the basil pot in which she had buried the severed head of her murdered lover Lorenzo. Hunt had drawn an illustration to the poem in 1848, shortly after the foundation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but he had not developed it into a completed painting. The drawing portrayed a very different scene, depicting Lorenzo as a clerk at work while Isabella's brothers study their accounts and order around underlings. Hunt returned to the poem in 1866, shortly after his marriage, when he began to paint several erotically charged subjects. His sensuous painting Il Dolce Far Niente (roughly translated: the sweetness of doing nothing) had sold quickly, and he conceived the idea for a new work depicting Isabella. Having travelled with his pregnant wife Fanny to Italy, Hunt began work on the painting in Florence. However, after giving birth, Fanny died from fever in December 1866. Hunt turned the painting into a memorial to his wife, using her features for Isabella. He worked on it steadily in the months after her death, returning to England in 1867, and finally completing it in January 1868. The painting was purchased and exhibited by the dealer Ernest Gambart. The painting portrays Isabella, unable to sleep, dressed in a semi-transparent nightgown, having just left her bed, which is visible with the cover turned over in the background. She drapes herself over an altar she has created to Lorenzo from an elaborately inlaid prie-dieu over which a richly embroidered cloth has been placed. On the cloth is the majolica pot, decorated with skulls, in which Lorenzo's head is interred. Her abundant hair flows over the pot and around the flourishing plant, reflecting Keats's words that Isabella "hung over her sweet Basil evermore,/And moistened it with tears unto the core." Behind her, next to the doorway, are a pair of pattens, next to the edge of a cassone. The emphasis on sensuality, rich colours and elaborate decorative objects reflects the growing Aesthetic movement and similar features in the work of Hunt's Pre-Raphaelite associates John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, such as Millais's Pot Pourri and Rossetti's Venus Verticordia. The pose of the figure also resembles Thomas Woolner's sculpture Civilization, which was partly modelled by Fanny's sister Alice. Hunt's work influenced several later artists, who adopted the same subject. Most notable are the paintings by John White Alexander (1897) and John William Waterhouse (1907). Alexander and Waterhouse reproduce Hunt's title and develop variations on his composition. Alexander's composition adapts the subject to a Whistlerian style. Waterhouse reverses the composition, and places the scene in a garden, but retains the motif of the water-jug and the decorative skull. (en)
  • Isabella and the Pot of Basil (Nederlands: Isabella en de basilicumpot) is een schilderij van de prerafaëlitische Engelse kunstschilder William Holman Hunt, gemaakt in 1867-1868, 187 x 116 centimeter groot. Het toont Isabella, een personage uit Boccaccio's Decamerone, die de pot met basilicum omarmt waarin ze het hoofd bewaart van haar geliefde Lorenzo, die vermoord werd door haar broers. Het werk bevindt zich thans in de collectie van de te Newcastle upon Tyne. (nl)
  • Isabella e il vaso di basilico (Isabella and the Pot of Basil) è un dipinto a olio su tela (187×116 cm) del pittore preraffaellita William Holman Hunt, realizzato nel 1868 e conservato alla di Newcastle upon Tyne. Il soggetto di questo dipinto, realizzato da Hunt a Firenze, è esplicitamente desunto dal poema di John Keats Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, a sua volta ispirato da una novella del Decameron di Giovanni Boccaccio. Qui si narra di una sfortunata donna che, seppur destinata a sposare un ricco gentiluomo, si innamora di Lorenzo, un ragazzo che - essendo di bassa estrazione sociale - viene ucciso dai fratelli di lei. Egli torna tuttavia sotto forma di spettro per rivelare all'amata il luogo in cui è sepolto; Isabella lo dissotterra e, per conservarne il ricordo, gli taglia la testa e la nasconde in un vaso, per poi coprirlo con una profumatissima pianta di basilico. La donna effigiata nel dipinto è, per l'appunto, Isabella, avvolta in un abito diafano; ella è colta proprio nell'attimo in cui abbraccia il vaso, decorato con teschi e cuori perforati da frecce. I suoi lunghi capelli neri scorrono sul recipiente, nel quale cresce una rigogliosa pianta di basilico: si tratta della traduzione in immagini del poema keatsiano, che recita: «sul suo dolce Basilico ella sempre rimase / e fino alle radici con le lacrime lo bagnava». La stanza in secondo piano brulica di mobilia di fattura italiana; la tovaglia su cui poggia il vaso, invece, è decorata con motivi floreali e reca due scritte, «[love] is strong as death» («[l'amore] è forte quanto la morte») e «Lorenzo». Il letto non riordinato è una spia dei disturbi del sonno che travagliano Isabella; analogamente, l'ora del giorno è indicata anche dalla candela, riposta nel lampadario di vetro, che si sta bruciando e spegnendo lentamente. Isabella e il vaso di basilico, una volta acquistato da ed esposto, conobbe una calorosa accoglienza, e influenzò diversi artisti: tra questi, degni di menzione John White Alexander e John William Waterhouse, ambedue autori di riproduzioni del dipinto. Sul medesimo soggetto venne realizzata anche un'incisione che ricevette gli applausi del Times, secondo cui Hunt realizzò «la classica interpretazione artistica dell'ultimo episodio del poema di Keats». (it)
  • «Изабелла и горшок с базиликом» (англ. Isabella and the Pot of Basil) — картина британского художника Уильяма Ханта, написанная им в 1856 году. Картина изображает сцену из одноимённой поэмы английского поэта Джона Китса на сюжет из новеллы о горшке с базиликом из «Декамерона» Боккаччо. Изабелла ласкает горшок с базиликом, в котором она закопала отрезанную голову своего возлюбленного Лоренцо. (ru)
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  • Isabella and the Pot of Basil (Nederlands: Isabella en de basilicumpot) is een schilderij van de prerafaëlitische Engelse kunstschilder William Holman Hunt, gemaakt in 1867-1868, 187 x 116 centimeter groot. Het toont Isabella, een personage uit Boccaccio's Decamerone, die de pot met basilicum omarmt waarin ze het hoofd bewaart van haar geliefde Lorenzo, die vermoord werd door haar broers. Het werk bevindt zich thans in de collectie van de te Newcastle upon Tyne. (nl)
  • «Изабелла и горшок с базиликом» (англ. Isabella and the Pot of Basil) — картина британского художника Уильяма Ханта, написанная им в 1856 году. Картина изображает сцену из одноимённой поэмы английского поэта Джона Китса на сюжет из новеллы о горшке с базиликом из «Декамерона» Боккаччо. Изабелла ласкает горшок с базиликом, в котором она закопала отрезанную голову своего возлюбленного Лоренцо. (ru)
  • Isabella and the Pot of Basil is a painting completed in 1868 by William Holman Hunt depicting a scene from John Keats's poem Isabella, or the Pot of Basil. It depicts the heroine Isabella caressing the basil pot in which she had buried the severed head of her murdered lover Lorenzo. (en)
  • Isabella e il vaso di basilico (Isabella and the Pot of Basil) è un dipinto a olio su tela (187×116 cm) del pittore preraffaellita William Holman Hunt, realizzato nel 1868 e conservato alla di Newcastle upon Tyne. (it)
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  • Изабелла и горшок с базиликом (ru)
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