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 ...
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) ...
Pre-Raphaelite supermodel Elizabeth Siddal is overshadowed by two enduring stories. Catching cold while posing in the bath for Millais' painting of Ophelia, and her exhumation by husband Dante Gabriel ...
Reviewed for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW by Russell Sturgis.russell Sturgis. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a ...
For Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the road that began at age twenty led inexorably to the consolations of wombats, whiskey, chloral, and the culmination of the grave. From our vantage point, this poem falls ...