The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in England in 1848, was one of the first art movements to adopt a name and a manifesto, a strategy that morphed into the many “isms” of the 20th century. Alas, ...
The questions raised in “Victorian Radicals,” a new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), manifest in the vivid juxtaposition of two objects at the show’s third-floor entrance: a ...
A work of quite stunning obscurity, Giuseppe Gabrielli’s painting The National Gallery 1886, Interior of Room 32 is not currently on display. But it is online and it reveals some important questions ...
Excluded from a male-dominated art world, women artists in early 20th-century London pioneered their own social networks.
An undated view of the Seven Hills of Bonn by Josephine Butler, who campaigned for sex workers' rights and pushed Parliament to raise the age of consent Courtesy of Ewbank's Auctions Josephine Butler ...
Edward Burne-Jones Tate Britain, London. Until 24 February 2019. Extraordinary advances in science, technology and industry shaped the Victorian age; alongside that grew a new experimentalism in ...
You don’t often see a baking competition in a museum. But recently, at the Seattle Art Museum, two dozen professional and home bakers competed in The Great Victorian Radicals Bake Off. The bakers ...