Parasitic wasps are some of the creepiest bugs on the planet. To further their species, they hunt down other insects and inject eggs into them. When the eggs hatch, the baby parasitic wasp larvae feed ...
The saying "The past is a foreign country" comes from the 1950s novel “The Go-Between,” which is set at the tail end of the ...
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It is the Victorian age in full flow, gleaming from the walls of the National Portrait Gallery in the gradated sepia or silvery tones of brilliantly detailed photographs. From the discovery of ...
The Bronte Creek Maple Syrup Festival presents its newest attraction — Victorian Portraits. Family and friends can get dressed up in Victorian-style costumes, have their picture taken and receive ...
OS: 17 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (44.5 x 39.4 cm.), SS: 13 x 11 in. (33 x 27.9 cm.) ...
Read this post, and we can’t guarantee you’ll ever look at Victorian portraiture the same way again. Nor can we guarantee you’ll be able to sleep tonight. That’s because Chad Wys‘s paintings are, in a ...
Lytton Strachey, author of the original ”Eminent Victorians,” came to bury the Victorians, not to praise them. He succeeded brilliantly. Because of his book, hypocrisy and self-righteousness came to ...
Today we usually take a family portrait to celebrate a happy occasion such as a birthday or an anniversary - but for the Victorians, the death of a relative was considered the perfect opportunity for ...
You can take the artist out of England, but you can’t always take England, or at least an era in the country’s history, out of the artist. Stoke-on-Trent-born, Post Falls-based artist Keith Harrop is ...