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 ...

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, ...

Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

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 ...

The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings. Andrew Lloyd Webber and curator Sophie Lynford stand in front ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are at least two ways to look at the mid-19th century group of British artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: as upstarts riding a wave of revolutionary ideas and new ways of seeing…or ...

You never know who you'll see in Delaware. On April 21, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber popped into the Delaware Art Museum. According to its social media sites, Webber, the English composer of songs from ...

Coffee table and fine art books make art accessible, but viewing art in person is an entirely different experience. Ask Tara Contractor, a doctoral candidate from Yale University’s History of Art ...

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, ...