21 h. ago Museum makes appeal to Taylor Swift after fans flock to see ‘Ophelia’ painting

A German museum has seen hundreds of additional visitors due to a scene in Swift’s new video

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23 h. ago Taylor Swift fans flock to German museum to see painting that inspired The Fate of Ophelia video

The work, by Friedrich Heyser, depicts Hamlet's beloved in William Shakespeare's play. It is on display at Hessische Landesmuseum in the German city of Wiesbaden.

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40 h. ago ‘It’s been a shock’: Taylor Swift fans flock to see German museum’s Ophelia

Depiction of Shakespeare character by Friedrich Heyser believed to have inspired pop superstar’s new music videoA 200-year-old museum in Germany has found itself in the eye of a storm of delighted Taylor Swift fans when it emerged that one of the probable inspirations for the music video of her new song The Fate of Ophelia was hanging on its wall.In the opening scene of the clip for the first song on Swift’s blockbuster new album The Life of a Showgirl, one of the world’s biggest pop stars assumes the role of the tragic Shakespearean character. The video, released earlier this month, was watched more than 27m times on YouTube in the first three days. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Museum unexpectedly overrun by Taylor Swift fans after painting inspires music video

The Swifties’ goal is an Art Nouveau painting by Friedrich Heyser featuring Ophelia

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1 week ago The story behind the character who inspired Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia – and what it really tells us

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the album’s release, fans and art historians speculated that the inspiration could come from John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia (1851-52), one of the most visited paintings at Tate Britain.

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2 w. ago Swifties: Here's Where You Can See The Ophelia Painting In London

Swifties: Here's Where You Can See The Ophelia Painting In London  Londonist

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2 w. ago BBC Antiques Roadshow expert stunned by 'conundrum' painting worth thousands

An Antiques Roadshow expert was left stunned by a special painting of Hamlet's Ophelia

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