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 handful of British artists who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were “a radical yet backward-looking” bunch, said Jeffry Cudlin in the Washington City Paper. The movement’s major ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. In the mid-19th century, the ...

Whether you like 19th century painting or not, it’s hard to ignore the Pre-Raphaelites, and it’s even harder to ignore the powerful beauty of their female models and muses – or “Pre-Raphaelite ...

LONDON — In 2019, museums ostensibly wrote women back into art history. In London we saw Dora Maar (Tate Britain), Lee Krasner (Barbican), and Dorothea Tanning (Tate Modern) all step out from behind ...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Sibylla Palmifera" (1865–1870), oil on canvas, 38 3/4 x 33 1/2 inches (all images courtesy the National Museums Liverpool) What's your go-to excuse when you miss an important ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON —Just in time for the spring influx of school trips and Easter vacations, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is hosting two exhibits about the Pre-Raphaelites painters of 19th ...