Isabella | John Everett Millais | 1848-49 Select Size:40" x 30" but a terrifying meditation on

but a terrifying meditation on human vulnerability in the face of nature’s uncontrollable power

embodying the instant she accepts her divine mission

created in 1875 during the artist's early Impressionist period

and the door as threshold between order and disorder

Isabella | John Everett Millais | 1848-49 Select Size:40" x 30" but a terrifying meditation onAbout the artwork: Isabella (184849) by John Everett Millais, one of the earliest masterpieces of the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood, dramatizes a moment from a tale by Boccaccio that Keats later retold in poetry: the tragic love between Isabella and her servant Lorenzo. Millais fills the scene with meticulous detail and psychological tensionIsabella leans protectively toward Lorenzo, while her brutal brothers, who will later murder him, sit on the