Artnet

A Show of Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces Invites You to Smell Them, Too

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 ...
Artnet

‘They Seized the Opportunities’: A New London Exhibition Tells the Remarkable Stories of the Women of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement

Why have there been no great women Pre-Raphaelites? Well, it turns out there were quite a few. The first exhibition to focus on the women behind the movement that took Victorian Britain by storm ...
Hyperallergic

Looking Beyond the "Brotherhood" of the Pre-Raphaelites

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) ...
The American Conservative

The Redemption of the Pre-Raphaelites

The top-selling image at the museum bookstore of London’s Tate Britain is of a young woman floating on her back in a quiet river. Heavy-lidded eyes stare emptily upwards, lips are parted in confusion, ...
The New York Times

PRE-RAPHAELITES.; Holman Hunt, in His Autobiography, Claims the Honor Generally Awarded to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.*

Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS by Joseph Jacobs. Author of (SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES.) New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view ...
Nature

Rebels of art and science: the empirical drive of the Pre-Raphaelites

Edward Burne-Jones Tate Britain, London. Until 24 February 2019. Extraordinary advances in science, technology and industry shaped the Victorian age; alongside that grew a new experimentalism in ...
insider.si.edu

The daring young men the story of the American Pre-Raphaelites

The pre-Raphaelite movement in America: an introduction -- The British brotherhood -- Buchanan Read and the Rossettis -- William J. Stillman: "The American pre-Raphaelite" -- The Crayon: the first ...
University of Delaware

The Gold Standard

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 ...
Hyperallergic

Using Mirrors to See van Eyck Reflected in the Pre-Raphaelites

This exhibition demonstrates Van Eyck’s influence on the Pre-Raphaelite through visual comparisons which satisfyingly reveal a complex relationship between two otherwise disparate art movements. Jan ...
Wall Street Journal

Women Who Shaped a Movement

In the 1850s, a group of British painters known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood became famous for their lavishly detailed pictures, full of brilliant colors, medieval settings and women with lush, ...
Women's Wear Daily

National Gallery’s Pre-Raphaelite Exhibit Stirs Power Debate

The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites were shockers in their day, unnerving prudish Victorians with images of powerful, full-lipped muscular women swathed in diaphanous, alluring fabrics. These days, ...
The New York Times

Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites.

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