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 ...

A new book of Elizabeth Siddall's poetry compiled from their original manuscripts has been published. Despite being remembered mainly for her role as a Victorian muse to artists like her husband, ...

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 ...

On view in ‘The Arch of My Eye’s Orbit’ at BAM: Slavs and Tatars, “Love Letters No. 9” (2014), woolen yarn, 250 × 250 cm (courtesy the artists and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York) This week, learn ...

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 ...

Whether you like 19th century painting or not, it’s hard to ignore the Pre-Raphaelites, and it’s even harder to ignore the powerful beauty of their female models and muses – or “Pre-Raphaelite ...

Striking in her beauty but self-effacing in her tone, Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali Stillman is a virtual unknown to American audiences. Yet the Delaware Art Museum took a gamble this month ...