Publication date from publisher's Web site. "Checklist of works exhibited in Washington": pages 246-249. "The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britain's ...
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) ...
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 pre-Raphaelite movement in America: an introduction -- The British brotherhood -- Buchanan Read and the Rossettis -- William J. Stillman: "The American pre-Raphaelite" -- The Crayon: the first ...
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 ...
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 ...
Each yearned to reform the conservative British art establishment, which they felt inhibited progressive contemporary artists. The artists had attended classes at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools ...
Nonetheless, the appreciation of styles and movements comes and goes in waves, often correlated with contemporary styles and sensibility. Among the most interesting examples of this phenomenon are the ...
Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS by Joseph Jacobs. Author of (SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES.) This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...
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