Visitors to a new exhibition in England will not only be able to look upon painted scenes and characters: They’ll be able to smell them, too. “Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,” which is on ...
Exhibition held at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, September 14 through October 24, 1982. BELLA MANO : PRERAPHAELITE PAINTINGS AND DECORATIVE ARTS FROM THE SAMUEL AND MARY R BANCROFT MEMORIAL ...
Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais’ painting The Blind Girl (1854–56) shows two girls sitting in a bright green meadow with a double rainbow in the background. While the younger girl stares ...
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 ...
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) ...
A Marriage of Arts & Crafts: Evelyn & William De Morgan in Wilmington, Delaware, showcases paintings and ceramics by two underrecognized yet influential artists. Evelyn De Morgan, “Flora” (detail) ...
There she is in Order of the Release, 1853 (pictured right), posing as the wife of an imprisoned Jacobite Highlander. I like to imagine this brilliant composition as a reflection of her marriage.
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 ...