The American Museum Every Pre-Raphaelite Art Lover Should Know
Britain is an obvious pilgrimage site for all Pre-Raphaelite fans, but did you know that American museums also have something great to offer? In...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 May 2025
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Literature in the Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
From its very inception, subjects taken from the literature were a staple for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Shakespeare, Keats, and Tennyson were...
Anastasia Manioudaki 12 May 2025
QUIZ: The Nude in Art
Candy Bedworth 12 April 2025
The Pre-Raphaelites and the Wombat
Many people are obsessed with cute cats, penguins, pandas, koalas, and all sorts of animals. However one rarely hears about the wombat, especially in...
Joanna Kaszubowska 11 April 2025
10 Greek Mythological Creatures That Combine Female Beauty and Beastly Ugliness
Gods, goddesses, demigods, horrible monsters, and beasts of hybrid forms roam the world of Ancient Greek mythology. Their heredity shaped many of the...
Bolor Jargalsaikhan 28 March 2025
Mythological Femmes Fatales in Mysterious Symbolist Paintings
Symbolism developed in the 19th century. It began as a literary movement but quickly moved into other art forms. Symbolist painters rejected the...
Anastasia Manioudaki 28 March 2025
Victorian Feminists and Their Supernatural Powers
The Victorian feminists in 19th-century England paved the way for the women’s movement across the world. The “New Woman,” as she was called,...
Anastasia Manioudaki 30 January 2025
All You Need to Know About the Epiphany
The Epiphany was already a popular subject in painting in the Middle Ages, yet it became a topos during the Renaissance when each respected painter...
Magda Michalska 6 January 2025
Lapis Lazuli—A Pigment More Precious Than Gold
Lapis lazuli, once more precious than gold, has a history of over 9000 years. The earliest artifacts found at Bhirrana, which is the oldest site of...
Irina Diana Calu 30 September 2024
Victorian Radicals at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Pre-Raphaelitism comes to the UK’s second city, with the first major exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in four years. Victorian...
Catriona Miller 3 June 2024
Maiden or Boy? Androgyny and Misogyny in Symbolist Art
As the 19th century barreled towards the 20th, a profound reevaluation of established gender roles manifested in the confluence of burgeoning...
Martha Teverson 8 February 2024
How Art Inspired the Game of Thrones
It has been a while since Game of Thrones ran its course. Are you planning to re-watch it anytime soon? Trying to escape our current bleak world, for...
Joanna Kaszubowska 21 September 2023
