The Valentino show that closed the winter 2014 couture season was romantic, graceful and very much in the spirit of the house’s recent revival. Backstage, Pre-Raphaelite paintings by artists like Alma ...
"Mythology functioned as a timeless framework for the artists to challenge Victorian artistic conventions and examine contemporary values." Cadence Whawell explores Pre-Raphaelite depictions of ...
On “Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman” at the Watts Gallery, Surrey. It must have been fun to be a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but what about the ...
In 1854, at a time when divorce was considered taboo, Effie Gray went to court to annul her marriage to art critic John Ruskin. Gray cited the non-consummation of their wedding vows as justification ...
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 ...