Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS by Joseph Jacobs. Author of (SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES.) New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view ...
Reviewed for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW by Russell Sturgis.russell Sturgis. New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Why have there been no great women Pre-Raphaelites? Well, it turns out there were quite a few. The first exhibition to focus on the women behind the movement that took Victorian Britain by storm ...
The top-selling image at the museum bookstore of London’s Tate Britain is of a young woman floating on her back in a quiet river. Heavy-lidded eyes stare emptily upwards, lips are parted in confusion, ...