The prosperity of the Victorian era (1837-1901) transformed the British art world from a small group of artists who painted for the nobility into a robust community of artists who were free to create ...
Georgiana Houghton, “The Risen Lord” (June 29, 1864), watercolor and gouache on paper laid on board with pen and ink inscription on the reverse (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) In 1871, ...
The questions raised in “Victorian Radicals,” a new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), manifest in the vivid juxtaposition of two objects at the show’s third-floor entrance: a ...
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in England in 1848, was one of the first art movements to adopt a name and a manifesto, a strategy that morphed into the many “isms” of the 20th century. Alas, ...
The Victorian era has long been associated with prudishness, repression and abject poverty for those unfortunate souls stuck at the bottom of the economic rung. But it was also a period of tumultuous ...
`Women of Flowers — A Tribute to Victorian Women Illustrators” at the Chicago Botanic Garden has gathered together 44 works of botanic art produced by flower-empowered women artists of the 18th and ...
More than 100 drawings and sketches brought together over a 30-year period by Canadian Dr Dennis T Lanigan are on show in the UK for the first time. The collection comprises works by around 60 of the ...
NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- A provocative new show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Exposed: The Victorian Nude," challenges conventional ideas about Victorian prudery by establishing that the nude was ...
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