The Netherlands' Rijksmuseum says a condom believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep's appendix, "depicts both the playful ...

The story that John Ruskin set Turner's scandalous nude paintings on fire was accepted as truth, but centuries later, the ...

London in mid-Victorian England ... in scope – a Jewish painter painting Jewish subject matter. Even after embracing the revival of classicism, and later the art for art’s sake movement ...

The 1895 painting, known as “Flaming June,” had ... Look, when it comes to Victorian art, I’m mostly with Lloyd Webber’s grandmother. But “Flaming June”? “Flaming June” is ...

In 1848, London first saw the initials P.R.B. in the corners of paintings. The artists who ... three Englishmen out of joint with their early Victorian times: William Holman Hunt (21), Dante ...

These paintings had been hung on the walls in ... For the influential Victorian art critic John Ruskin, such class distinctions were inevitable, and even desirable. Called before a parliamentary ...

A young woman with sunkissed cheeks and long auburn hair is curled in sleep, her sheer Grecian dress fanned out and filling the canvas with a tangerine hue. She dozes on a marble terrace, a gold ...

London in mid-Victorian England ... in scope – a Jewish painter painting Jewish subject matter. Even after embracing the revival of classicism, and later the art for art’s sake movement ...