Juliet

Pietro Roi (1819-1896) was born in the province of Vicenza and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, and matured his style through frequenting in Rome the neoclassical and Romantic artists Tommaso Minardi and Nicola Consoni and the Nazarene painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck. The Vicenza artist, in the course of his artistic activity, developed his pictorial style in commissions of religious subjects, historical paintings, portraits, and landscapes. "Juliet" is placed in the same period as the 1882 painting "Juliet and Romeo" owned by the Musei Civici of Vicenza, whose profile of the unfortunate lover grieving for the loss of Romeo, he repurposes in a similar pose but with more intimate and less theatrical tones.