In an age when the lives of artists were full of adventure, his life is almost colourless. —Walter Pater, “Sandro Botticelli” If we had not welcomed the arts and invented this kind of cult of the ...

This painting depicts the young actress Ellen Terry reaching out to the opulent but scentless camellia and discarding the common, but fragrant violets in her hand. National Portrait Gallery, Lon Was ...

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What was the aesthetic movement? If we do not know now we certainly will within the next few weeks as the V&A's latest blockbuster exhibition gets into its stride and Londoners are overwhelmed with ...

That there has been a direct relationship between religion and the arts is evident from primitive times. Men have used statuary, chants, paintings, and places of worship to objectify and house his ...

Whistler in the art world of the twenty-first century. The Artist As Muse / Ruth Fine -- The Whistler Etchings Project / Margaret F. MacDonald -- Whistler and art of the Americas / Erica E. Hirshler - ...