Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais’ painting The Blind Girl (1854–56) shows two girls sitting in a bright green meadow with a double rainbow in the background. While the younger girl stares ...
The Google Doodle for November 18 honors Fanny Eaton, a muse to the Pre-Raphaelites who helped redefine Victorian standards of beauty. Born in Jamaica on June 23, 1835, Eaton moved to London in the ...
The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of ...
Truth & Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is an escape. In the mausoleum-like lower galleries at the Legion of Honor, there are no windows to remind you of the outside world. There’s ...
Visitors to a new exhibition in England will not only be able to look upon painted scenes and characters: They’ll be able to smell them, too. “Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,” which is on ...
Every day, Wilmingtonians encounter legacies of the Bancroft family. Samuel Bancroft Jr. (1840-1915) and William Bancroft (1835-1928) radically reshaped Wilmington by preserving public green space, ...
Between her ankle-grazing strands and light-handed makeup application, Hailee Steinfeld’s February cover is a visual feast for anyone who loves a romantic beauty look with a bit of a plot twist. While ...
An exhibition at the Legion of Honor explores the contradictions and paradoxes of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by presenting its works alongside older masterpieces. Judith H. Dobrzynski ...
One of the biggest beauty trends at the Met Gala 2022? Cascading Pre-Raphaelite curls, as seen on everyone from Kaia Gerber and Olivia Rodrigo to Hoyeon Jung and Phoebe Dynevor. The look was a nod to ...