Yet, since the world first encountered her in La Vita Nuova, at no time has Dante and Beatrice’s compelling, occasionally controversial relationship proven more illuminating than in the Victorian ...

London in mid-Victorian England was still very ... Solomon was born in London in 1840 to a middle-class family of eight children. While studying art at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools ...

and Women by Elizabeth Wilson (Virago Press, 1991) The new industrial and commercial middle classes of the Victorian era were great patrons of the arts, and some British provincial art galleries ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ... working-class counterparts. But Hunter cautions that “art is always ...

That man in the top hat and blue bow tie, the pair of serious women with their lace ... For the influential Victorian art critic John Ruskin, such class distinctions were inevitable, and even ...