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Isabella and the Pot of Basil
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
and the Pot of Basil" by John William Waterhouse and "Isabella" (also known as "Lorenzo and Isabella") by John Everett Millais. Later, John White Alexander depicted the poem in his 1897 "Isabella and the Pot of Basil", currently held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Frank Bridge also wrote a symphonic poem of the same name in 1907.
External links.
- Keats's poem
- Project Gutenberg's translation of Decameron