The prosperity of the Victorian era (1837-1901) transformed the British art world from a small group of artists who painted for the nobility into a robust community of artists who were free to create ...

English painter John William Waterhouse loved to read Lord Alfred Tennyson. He loved the Victorian poet’s writing so much, in fact, that he allegedly filled every blank page of his copy of Tennyson’s ...

In the cultural ether of Victorian England, Lilith—an ancient Talmudic seductress and the mythical first wife of Adam—arose as a figure of renewed fascination in popular culture, and one who embodied ...

There is plenty of uncovered flesh but not much nakedness in the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Exposed: The Victorian Nude, a survey of the ways in which the Victorians corseted the nude in moral precepts ...

A work of quite stunning obscurity, Giuseppe Gabrielli’s painting The National Gallery 1886, Interior of Room 32 is not currently on display. But it is online and it reveals some important questions ...