NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- A provocative new show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Exposed: The Victorian Nude," challenges conventional ideas about Victorian prudery by establishing that the nude was ...

The Victorian era has long been associated with prudishness, repression and abject poverty for those unfortunate souls stuck at the bottom of the economic rung. But it was also a period of tumultuous ...

In the Book of Genesis, God strikes down Onan, the second son of Judah, for the crime of masturbating. In Velvet Rage, Flaming Youth, and the Gift of Desperation, a show by artist duo McDermott & ...

The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University will host its next House of Learning Lecture, titled “Arthur Rackham: Scaring Children Out of the Nursery and the Contemporary Artists that Follow ...

If you ever run into artist Richard Rosvall, there's a good chance he'll be wearing a dark bowler hat with handmade goggles of wood, leather and lenses set on the brim. It's a bit of an "Around the ...

Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti's had a major obsession with wombats. He had one as a pet named "Top" that ran around outside of his home. Wombats became a focal point of his artwork, ...

Until the end of this year, the Manchester Art Gallery exhibition Painting Light and Hope is showing 36 paintings of forgotten Victorian artist Annie Louisa Swynnerton (1844-1933), a native of the ...

Book Description: Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer by John Paul M. Kanwit examines the development of specialized art commentary in a period when art education became a national concern in ...

London: What's the best way to erase an ex-lover from your life? As Victorian artist William Holman Hunt found, painting over her is a good start. His portrait of this pre-Raphaelite beauty did not ...