
John William Waterhouse – Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder
Victorian artist John William Waterhouse paintings are a type of ‘romantic classicism’ as he interpreted history legend & poetry inspired by the pre-Raphaelites
Victorian artist John William Waterhouse paintings are a type of ‘romantic classicism’ as he interpreted history legend & poetry inspired by the pre-Raphaelites
In style and technique the Pre-Raphaelites marked a return to the early Italian Renaissance but by contrast their subject matter was both radical and innovative
Coventry Patmore wrote a poem about his wife Emily after she died describing her many virtues and from then on all Victorian men wanted an ‘Angel in the House’
In 1833 the dahlia was decreed a ‘florist’s flower’ joining a list of those suitable for developing the fine English art of fashionable flower arrangement
An antique is something made in an earlier period and collected and valued because it is rare, old, aesthetically pleasing of high quality or interest. A more generally accepted understanding is furniture and objects over 100 years of age. But this is not strictly true. Today many Associations for antique…