A new book of Elizabeth Siddall's poetry compiled from their original manuscripts has been published.
On “Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman” at the Watts Gallery, Surrey. It must have been fun to be a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but what about the ...
Rossetti identified the subject of his Lady Lilith painting as Adam's first wife—"the witch he loved before the gift of Eve." The work (1866-68) was altered in 1872-73 to please patron Frederick ...
THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY — William Gaunt—Harcourt, Brace ($3). When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment ...
My mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The ...
Today’s Poem of the Day continues the Sun’s week-long celebration of the Victorian poets. Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) was the youngest in a family of literary siblings, the most notable of whom, ...
Striking in her beauty but self-effacing in her tone, Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali Stillman is a virtual unknown to American audiences. Yet the Delaware Art Museum took a gamble this month ...
On view in ‘The Arch of My Eye’s Orbit’ at BAM: Slavs and Tatars, “Love Letters No. 9” (2014), woolen yarn, 250 × 250 cm (courtesy the artists and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York) This week, learn ...