Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as revealing new insights into influential artworks.
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 ...
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 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 ...
The top-selling image at the museum bookstore of London’s Tate Britain is of a young woman floating on her back in a quiet river. Heavy-lidded eyes stare emptily upwards, lips are parted in confusion, ...
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 ...
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, ...
John Everett Millais, “The Blind Girl” (detail), 1856, oil on canvas (Presented by the Rt. Hon. William Kendrick, 1892, courtesy American Federation of Arts ...
There’s nothing like Europe in the fall. From Frieze in London to FIAC in Paris, there’s plenty of art-market action and, as the summer tourists leave town and the foliage outside begins its colorful ...
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. There are at least two ways to look at the mid-19th ...
Today's Google Doodle pays tribute to Jamaican-British artist muse Fanny Eaton. During the 1860s, Eaton modelled for a number of notable painters and has been credited with challenging Victorian ...
'Direct and serious and heartfelt': The Pre-Raphaelite movement -- The first generation: 1848-65. Anna Mary Howitt. Joanna Boyce. Rosa Brett. Anna Blunden. Elizabeth Siddal -- The second generation: ...
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