Why have there been no great women Pre-Raphaelites? Well, it turns out there were quite a few. The first exhibition to focus on the women behind the movement that took Victorian Britain by storm ...
LONDON — In 2019, museums ostensibly wrote women back into art history. In London we saw Dora Maar (Tate Britain), Lee Krasner (Barbican), and Dorothea Tanning (Tate Modern) all step out from behind ...
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. There are at least two ways to look at the mid-19th ...
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, ...
The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of ...
The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings. Andrew Lloyd Webber and curator Sophie Lynford stand in front ...
The National Gallery of Art’s exhibit “The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting” welcomed me with a depiction of two lovers embracing each other passionately. At first glimpse, I had ...
Forget what you think you know about the Victorians. “Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement,” the big fall show at the San Antonio Museum of Art, will set you ...
Highlights of our sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art on 15 December include the recently rediscovered The Bird’s Nest by Sir George Clausen and important paintings by his ...