Two-and-a-half centuries after William Shakespeare’s Hamlet came to the stage, the tragic-romantic figure of Ophelia reignited the Victorian imagination in paintings, poetry, and plays. Among the ...
In a time in which figurative art has reached a pinnacle of quality, up-and-coming painters need more than just the know-how of old master techniques and the ability to paint over-idealized beauty.
There are at least two ways to look at the mid-19th century group of British artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: as upstarts riding a wave of revolutionary ideas and new ways of seeing…or ...
Evelyn De Morgan, “Flora” (detail) (1894), oil and gold leaf on canvas (© De Morgan Collection, courtesy the De Morgan Foundation) A Marriage of Arts & Crafts: Evelyn & William De Morgan, opening ...
"Isabella and the Pot of Basil" by William Holman Hunt will be sold at auction in London The Delaware museum boasts the most significant collection of Pre-Raphaelite works outside of the United ...