Cartão The Shrine by John William Waterhouse

This Romanticism genre masterpiece titled, The Shrine was made by John William Waterhouse using the oil on canvas technique. Waterhouse's early works were not Pre-Raphaelite in nature, but were of classical themes in the spirit of Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton. These early works were exhibited at the Dudley Gallery, and the Society of British Artists, and in 1874 his painting Sleep and his Half-brother Death was exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition.