We are mistaken to think of the Victorian Age as prim, proper, overstuffed and dull.As an exhibition at Washington’s National Gallery of Art makes abundantly and sumptuously clear, the reign of ...

Provocative paintings Solomon was born in London in 1840 to a middle-class family of eight children. While studying art at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools as a teenager, he was introduced to ...

She says the X-ray revealed that the painting had been “painted over” in the Victorian era. People in that era had the wrong idea of Isabella de Medici for years.

Radical abstract artworks created by a Victorian spiritualist medium who claimed to be painting under the influence of Renaissance artists and other “spirits of the departed” have gone on ...

His subjects have been described as ‘narcotised beauties’ and he painted his mistresses as Renaissance nymphs: but Edward Burne-Jones was a modernist, argues Cameron Laux.

Provocative paintings Solomon was born in London in 1840 to a middle-class family of eight children. While studying art at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools as a teenager, he was introduced to ...