Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais’ painting The Blind Girl (1854–56) shows two girls sitting in a bright green meadow with a double rainbow in the background. While the younger girl stares ...
Evelyn De Morgan, “Flora” (detail) (1894), oil and gold leaf on canvas (© De Morgan Collection, courtesy the De Morgan Foundation) A Marriage of Arts & Crafts: Evelyn & William De Morgan, opening ...
In 1854, at a time when divorce was considered taboo, Effie Gray went to court to annul her marriage to art critic John Ruskin. Gray cited the non-consummation of their wedding vows as justification ...
Visitors to a new exhibition in England will not only be able to look upon painted scenes and characters: They’ll be able to smell them, too. “Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,” which is on ...
Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as revealing new insights into influential artworks.
Edward Burne-Jones Tate Britain, London. Until 24 February 2019. Extraordinary advances in science, technology and industry shaped the Victorian age; alongside that grew a new experimentalism in ...
Pre-Raphaelite art; paintings, drawings, engravings, sculpture, tapestries, chintzes, wallpapers. An exhibition arranged by the state art galleries of Australia, 1962 [held at the National Gallery of ...
The top-selling image at the museum bookstore of London’s Tate Britain is of a young woman floating on her back in a quiet river. Heavy-lidded eyes stare emptily upwards, lips are parted in confusion, ...
America's first Pre-Raphaelite : William James Stillman -- The American Pre-Raphaelite landscape and Thomas Charles Farrer -- Architects of reform : Peter Bonnett Wight and Russell Sturgis, Jr. -- Pre ...
Every day, Wilmingtonians encounter legacies of the Bancroft family. Samuel Bancroft Jr. (1840-1915) and William Bancroft (1835-1928) radically reshaped Wilmington by preserving public green space, ...