When Waterhouse’s exquisite Hylas and the Nymphs was controversially removed from exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery recently, I wrote that it would be far more…
The Manchester Art Gallery announced this week that it has removed from exhibition the painting Hylas and the Nymphs by J.W. Waterhouse, and also the…
There have been many times in my life when I’ve seen models or actresses and compared my own looks to them and realized I don’t…
I’ve written about Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting Astarte Syriaca (1877) more than once on this blog, saying in Those Rossetti Lips: She could totally crush you. …
I receive many positive emails through this blog because, for the most part, people in the world are great. The negative ones stand out, though,…
Imprisonment and isolation appear frequently in Pre-Raphaelite art, in images like the Lady of Shalott, Mariana, and in Evelyn De Morgan’s painting The Gilded Cage.…
I was browsing a bookstore and found an aisle offering boxed sets of movies packaged with the books they were based on. A little girl…
