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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ballarat offer visitors a chance to get up close with Pre-Raphaelite works. In partnership with the Art Gallery of Ballarat, we sit down with the gallery’s ...

After years of neglect, the female painters and makers of the pre-Raphaelite era are getting their first dedicated exhibition – and it’s enough to make any grandmaster look to his laurels At first ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Headache-inducing colours, unruly Helena Bonham Carter hair and Snow White-style dresses are the kinds of things that come to mind ...

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 ...

Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

Henry Wallis, “Chatterton” (c. 1855–56), oil on canvas, 62.2 x 93.3 cm (24 1/2 x 36 3/4 in), Tate Gallery, London (all images courtesy the National Gallery of Art) In its first iteration in London, ...

THE Pre-Raphaelite movement got bad press in the early 20th century. It tended to be lumped in with everything a new generation disliked about the Victorian period: the realism, the moralism, the ...