Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

On a wall among the hushed halls of a late medieval Dominican convent in Forlì, near Bologna, you will find the image of a group of four barefoot and beautiful young women eternally gathering pebbles ...

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While the camera has made some notable advancements in the past 150 years, the disheveled look of bohemians has remained constant: unkempt hair, torn clothing and lips that rarely smile. But Kate Moss ...

A vision realized : pre-Raphaelitism in the Bancroft collection / Stephen Wildman -- Samuel Bancroft : collector of the pre-Raphaelites / Margaretta S. Frederick -- Charles Fairfax Murray : keeper of ...

This exhibition makes a strong case that the Pre-Raphaelites offered much more than a lot of pretty faces. The paintings are organized mostly thematically, with hints toward chronological ordering as ...

They called themselves “the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,” a phrase that sounded stuffy even when it was first pronounced in the mid-19th century. The names even of the group’s founders — William Holman ...

The English don’t really like art,” a celebrated (English) abstract sculptor told me, some time ago. “We like literature and nature—gardens and landscape. That’s why we admire all those artists who go ...

The pre-Raphaelite movement in America: an introduction -- The British brotherhood -- Buchanan Read and the Rossettis -- William J. Stillman: "The American pre-Raphaelite" -- The Crayon: the first ...

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 ...