The Pre-Raphaelites & The Birth of Modernism at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on 16 Sep. A talk by Matthew Whyte on the artists who looked back in order to move forward, leading to modernism. Part of Art ...

Coffee table and fine art books make art accessible, but viewing art in person is an entirely different experience. Ask Tara Contractor, a doctoral candidate from Yale University’s History of Art ...

Mark Samuels Lasner, who collects and studies Victorian and pre-Raphaelite books and art, will deliver this year's Josephine Gessner Ferguson Lecture in English Literature at 6 p.m. Thursday. His talk ...

My mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“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 ...

Truth & Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is an escape. In the mausoleum-like lower galleries at the Legion of Honor, there are no windows to remind you of the outside world. There’s ...

Concurrent shows at the Delaware Art Museum highlight overlooked aspects of Pre-Raphaelite art and tread beyond typical gender hierarchies. While Pre-Raphaelite Sisters does write the female ...

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 ...

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY — William Gaunt—Harcourt, Brace ($3). When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment ...