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 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 ...

Georgiana Houghton, “The Risen Lord” (June 29, 1864), watercolor and gouache on paper laid on board with pen and ink inscription on the reverse (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) In 1871, ...

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 ...

“Don’t forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age, there will be time for meekness when you try to better it.” With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- A provocative new show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Exposed: The Victorian Nude," challenges conventional ideas about Victorian prudery by establishing that the nude was ...

`Women of Flowers — A Tribute to Victorian Women Illustrators” at the Chicago Botanic Garden has gathered together 44 works of botanic art produced by flower-empowered women artists of the 18th and ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - 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 ...