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 ...

The Victorian era has long been associated with prudishness, repression and abject poverty for those unfortunate souls stuck at the bottom of the economic rung. But it was also a period of tumultuous ...

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, ...

Book Description: Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer by John Paul M. Kanwit examines the development of specialized art commentary in a period when art education became a national concern in ...

The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings. Andrew Lloyd Webber and curator Sophie Lynford stand in front ...

It wasn’t easy being a female Victorian scientist. Even if you got a place to work beyond your home, it was unlikely you would ever receive an academic position, or any sort of wide recognition for ...

John Everett Millais, “The Blind Girl” (detail), 1856, oil on canvas (Presented by the Rt. Hon. William Kendrick, 1892, courtesy American Federation of Arts ...

Along with the Roman goddess of marriage, Juno, Valentine’s Day honors the Christian martyr St. Valentine. Persecuted by the Roman Emperor in A.D. 273, St. Valentine enjoys a legacy that has been ...

A Beguiling Work by Millais Leads Single-Owner Sale of Victorian Art at BonhamsLondon – Il Penseroso by Sir John Everett Millais (British, 1829-1896) leads Bonhams' sale of The Guy Bailey Collection ...

TIM BARRINGER Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005. 392 pp.; 33 color ills., 113 b/ w. $65.00 ...