Juliet at the Window

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Human is a character from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In Act 2, Scene 2, Romeo, smitten with Juliet after meeting her at the Capulets' ball, sneaks into an orchard next to her house, where she soon appears in her window. Fontana's relief was showcased at the 1874 Royal Academy and at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition that same year. The companion piece, 'Romeo', was displayed in Liverpool in 1878. The precise depiction of costume and details is typical of Fontana's naturalistic relief style, as is the illusionistic technique of showing Juliet leaning both out of the window and outside the sculpture frame. The sharp perspective of the opened window implies that the relief was created to be viewed from below, drawing the spectator into the story's events.