In 1854, at a time when divorce was considered taboo, Effie Gray went to court to annul her marriage to art critic John Ruskin. Gray cited the non-consummation of their wedding vows as justification ...

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) ...

Mark Samuels Lasner, who collects and studies Victorian and pre-Raphaelite books and art, will deliver this year's Josephine Gessner Ferguson Lecture in English Literature at 6 p.m. Thursday. His talk ...

The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites were shockers in their day, unnerving prudish Victorians with images of powerful, full-lipped muscular women swathed in diaphanous, alluring fabrics. These days, ...

In 1848, there was only one clique to be in. And any artist worth their salt stuck outside the sacred circle would look on in envy at those admitted to the inner sanctum. The Pre-Raphaelite ...

Check your calendars so as not to miss one of NJIT's famous free architecture lectures scheduled from February through April. Luminous names in the world of architecture and design will light up the ...