The Blind Girl | John Everett Millais | 1856 George Frederic Watts This haunting painting captures the

This haunting painting captures the final moments of Lady Jane Grey

making "The Garden of Earthly Delights" an enduring masterpiece of Renaissance art

and emotional collapse

Ferris evokes the rich intellectual tradition of ancient Greece

The Blind Girl | John Everett Millais | 1856 George Frederic Watts This haunting painting captures theAbout the artwork: John Everett Millais's 1856 painting, "The Blind Girl," portrays two young female beggars, likely sisters, resting by a roadside after a rainstorm near Winchelsea, Sussex. The elder, blind, holds a concertina on her lapa symbol of her means to earn a livingand wears a sign reading "Pity the Blind." She tilts her face upward, feeling the sun's warmth and touching a blade of grass, engaging her remaining senses. A tortoiseshell