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 ...
Dante Alighieri’s long-time courtly love interest and spiritual guide throughout The Divine Comedy, Beatrice Portinari, has shaped visual representations of female dignity for centuries. Yet, since ...
English painter John William Waterhouse loved to read Lord Alfred Tennyson. He loved the Victorian poet’s writing so much, in fact, that he allegedly filled every blank page of his copy of Tennyson’s ...
In the cultural ether of Victorian England, Lilith—an ancient Talmudic seductress and the mythical first wife of Adam—arose as a figure of renewed fascination in popular culture, and one who embodied ...
(NEWSER) – One man in Harrogate, England, is very happy he decided to have Antiques Roadshow take a look at an old family painting. It turns out that the portrait of his great-great-grandfather could ...
Should you ever visit the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, on the outskirts of London, make sure to take in one of the lesser-known attractions there, the Marianne North Gallery. Situated on one of the ...
A work of quite stunning obscurity, Giuseppe Gabrielli’s painting The National Gallery 1886, Interior of Room 32 is not currently on display. But it is online and it reveals some important questions ...
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