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 era
The Pre-Raphaelites – Visionary Vanity of Half a Dozen Boys
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
‘The Angel in the House’ – A Snug Victorian Family Life
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’
Fashionable Flower Arrangements – An English Art Perfected
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
Antiques & Art
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…