Isabella and the Pot of Basil  1897

Alexander experimented with decorative and decadent themes, often employing the slender, sinuous lines of the Art Nouveau style. Isabella, or The Pot of Basil was a poem written in 1820 by the English poet John Keats, who borrowed his narrative from the Italian Renaissance poet Giovanni Boccaccio. Isabella was a Florentine merchant’s beautiful daughter whose ambitious brot...