{"id":5742,"date":"2015-05-29T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2015-08-05T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:29:44","slug":"isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabella and the Pot of Basil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Holman Hunt was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of artists. This painting is typical of his work and is based on verses from John Keats&#8217;s 19th century poem, Isabella, a re-interpretation of a medieval story.The story goes that Isabella fell in love with Lorenzo, one of her brothers&#8217; employees. When her brothers found out, they murdered Lorenzo and buried his body. His ghost informs Isabella in a dream. She exhumes his body and buries the head in a pot of basil which she tends obsessively, while pining away.<\/p>\n<p>This painting is especially poignant as it was modeled on the artist&#8217;s wife, Fanny Waugh, who died before the picture was completed. He continued working on the painting as a labour of love and a memorial to her.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt was always keen to maximise the popular appeal and public visibility of his works. The attention to\u00a0 detail, vivid colour and elaborate symbolism were influenced by the writings of <a title=\"John Ruskin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Ruskin\">John Ruskin<\/a> and <a title=\"Thomas Carlyle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Carlyle\">Thomas Carlyle<\/a>, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"translate \">The picture was owned by the Tynemouth collector James Hall, who was a partner in the Newcastle shipping business of Palmer, Hall &amp; Co.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SWL-by-Ann-Marie-Utratel-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6584\" src=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SWL-by-Ann-Marie-Utratel-copy.jpg\" alt=\"SWL by Ann Marie Utratel copy\" width=\"332\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Holman Hunt was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of artists. This painting is typical of his work and is based on verses from John Keats&#8217;s 19th century poem, Isabella, a re-interpretation of a medieval story.The story goes that Isabella fell in love with Lorenzo, one of her brothers&#8217; employees. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Isabella and the Pot of Basil<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}