Study for ‘Consulting the Oracle’ Verso: Studies of (i) Same Composition (ii) Priestess on a Tripod Throne

Trained at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, John William Waterhouse painted classical themes in the Academic style before embracing the ethos of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – the reform movement of English artists who rejected “what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote” in favor of the limpid color and intricate detail that had distinguished the masterworks of the Middle Ages and early Italian Renaissance.

Rome, Italy