The Google Doodle for November 18 honors Fanny Eaton, a muse to the Pre-Raphaelites who helped redefine Victorian standards of beauty. Born in Jamaica on June 23, 1835, Eaton moved to London in the ...
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 ...
Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...
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 ...
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In 1848, there was only one clique to be in. And any artist worth their salt stuck outside the sacred circle would look on in ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A brotherhood of English 19th-century artists enamoured with the past became inspired by art from the early Renaissance and ...
It isn’t immediately obvious, to contemporary eyes, what made the art of the American Pre-Raphaelites seem so ugly and so radical to 19th-century critics. Their intimately detailed water colors and ...
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 ...
In the 1850s, a group of British painters known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood became famous for their lavishly detailed pictures, full of brilliant colors, medieval settings and women with lush, ...
The English don’t really like art,” a celebrated (English) abstract sculptor told me, some time ago. “We like literature and nature—gardens and landscape. That’s why we admire all those artists who go ...
An artist can reveal the true personality of their sitter through a drawing. The first section of the Ashmolean’s exhibition includes intimate portraits of the group’s family, patrons and friends; it ...
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