They are in complete harmony with the heavy meals, strong drink, elaborate clothes, ornate furnishings, flamboyant art, melodramatic plays, loud music, flowery speeches and thundering sermons of ...

“Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage” is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 9: (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org.

An 1861 painting by a little-known female artist has just been bought by the Manchester Art Gallery for £130,000. While its satirical depiction of the inferior roles assigned to working women is ...

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 ...

The Edwardian period of furniture design falls in the years between Victorian and Art Deco. It is named for King Edward VII of England, who reigned from 1901 to 1910. Some experts say it is not jus… ...

In 1848, London first saw the initials P.R.B. in the corners of paintings. The artists who put them there wanted no one to mistake their work for Raphael's. Nobody was likely to. P.R.B. stood ...

The current exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, “Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement,” features 150 works, including paintings, drawings, stained ...