The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, challenged convention in Victorian Britain and endeavoured to overthrow the art ...

Inspired by the pre-Raphaelites while a student at the Royal Academy, Hughes maintained their style and themes long after the PRB had disbanded. He specialised in literary and romantic subjects with ...

Love Among the Ruins by Birmingham-born artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones usually hangs in the Great Parlour in Wightwick Manor, but has been cleaned up, packaged up and transported to the Musei di San ...

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, ...

Some paintings will always be identified with the place where you first saw them. You may even feel surprised to see them somewhere else. This is how I felt when I visited the Mori Arts Center Gallery ...

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 ...

Rossetti identified the subject of his Lady Lilith painting as Adam's first wife—"the witch he loved before the gift of Eve." The work (1866-68) was altered in 1872-73 to please patron Frederick ...

Valentine’s Day is almost here. And if you’re yet to get in the romantic mood, perhaps a trip to some of Liverpool’s wonderful galleries is in order? Great art has a power to move that’s matched only ...

Founded in 1848, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was a group of English painters, poets and critics, whose aesthetic preferences were influenced by medieval literature and art. Their works, however, ...

One of Wolverhampton's most treasured paintings is going on a romantic break to Italy this Valentine's Day. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in the ...