Desdemona is the Antonio Muñoz’s work, oil on canvas from 1887. This picture it is expose in The Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. I think it is one of the best pictures that reflects this play as a tragedy.

First of all, this tragedy takes place in Venetia, the colors shown in the picture are what we called venetian colors, reddish tones combine with dark yellows. The opposite colors black and white as reflect the double face of the tragedy, love and death.

This is play involve people from the upper classes of Venetia. We can notice the luxury of the clothing wear by Desdemona as the princess that Othello thought he had and as the daughter of Brabantio, the Senator. This high class it is as well shown in the velvet material of the red pillows and the complex wood furniture that are around Desdemona.

Desdemona gesture shows her pain caused by the unjustified jealousy in Othello, that caused her death followed by Othello’s suicide. This jealousy was put in Othello’s head by Iago as the great manipulator of the play. “O, beware , my lord , of jealousy!” (3.3.195) “Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio” (3.3228). Othello that felt in Iago’s tramp, start entering in a fury state that does not end until his suicide. He will persecute her with questions and wrong manners causing in her a pain because she does from where Othello’s anger come from. “I am most unhappy in the loss of it” (3.4.119) As we can see in the picture, Desdemona’s depression and confusion for what Othello made her go through. As well we see her confusion and thoughts in her blank stare and her apathetic attitude.