The pre-Raphaelites
Victorian Radicals review – a riveting rethink for the trippy, cosplaying pre-Raphaelites
These Victorian painters are often framed as a guilty pleasure. But, as this intriguing exhibition makes clear, there is actually very little to feel guilty about
Hettie Judah
16, Feb, 2024 @10:40 AM
How a European colour revolution brought us the humble Christmas card
The Victorian era was not as dusty and monochrome as we think; a new exhibition and a pan-European project, Chromotope, explores a wave of chemical breakthroughs that brought colour to the people
Andrew Pulver
19, Dec, 2023 @12:00 PM
‘Constant diarrhoea’ and other excuses: Rossetti’s five years of apologies for unfinished art revealed
Artist’s letter to his backer, George Rae, to go on show this week, revealing excuses for not meeting and why he could not deliver promised work on time
Donna Ferguson
17, Dec, 2023 @7:00 AM
Steve McQueen: Grenfell; The Rossettis – review
Steve McQueen’s dizzying film of the ruin of Grenfell Tower is a rite of pure observation. Elsewhere, the star of the Tate’s pre-Raphaelite sibling show isn’t a painter…
Laura Cumming
09, Apr, 2023 @12:00 PM
Ophelia resurfaces: pre-Raphaelite muse is recognised as a skilled artist
Elizabeth Siddal, immortalised in the painting by John Everett Millais, is finally being judged for her art at a new Tate exhibition
Richard Brooks
02, Apr, 2023 @8:00 AM
William Morris’s ‘heaven on earth’ Oxfordshire home restored to former glory
After a £6m renovation project, the pioneering designer’s farmhouse is reopening to the public
Dalya Alberge
26, Mar, 2022 @1:00 PM
Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan – raw, boozy, sexual slices of real life and love
This life-affirming show tracks a revolutionary moment in art, as the US artist and his young Irish lover blow apart the claustrophobia of Victorian painting
Jonathan Jones
23, Feb, 2022 @10:00 AM
Christina Rossetti deserves to be No 1 | Brief letters
Brief letters: Christmas carols | Delivery apps v the milkman | The joy of kissing | Garden wordsearch
Letters
01, Dec, 2021 @6:24 PM
Muse and model or painter-poet? Elizabeth Siddal given fresh portrait
RashDash’s new theatre production honours the pre-Raphaelite by focusing on her own art and poetry – and shifting from tragedy into comedy
Kate Wyver
07, Sep, 2021 @8:32 AM
Samson Kambalu: New Liberia; Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours – review
Kambalu, a Malawian fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, tears a strip off Britain’s colonial legacy. And precision is all for the pre-Raphaelites
Laura Cumming
19, Jun, 2021 @1:00 PM
What does the peacock feather symbolise? The great British art quiz
The De Morgan Collection sets today’s quiz, which enables you to explore the artworks in British museums closed due to Covid-19
19, Aug, 2020 @7:00 AM
'That's not art it's Victorian porn!' – how one small Barbie doll took on the art world
She pops up in galleries, denouncing prestigious works of art as ‘pre-Raphaelite wet T-shirt competitions’. Now ArtActivistBarbie is taking her feminist message to social media
Nancy Langham-Hooper
16, Apr, 2020 @10:02 AM
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