The Brotherhood The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in John Millais’s parents’ house on Gower Street, London in 1848. At the first meeting, the painters John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt were present. Hunt and Millais were students at the Royal Academy of Arts and had met in another loose association, theContinue reading “The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their Muses”
Category Archives: Painting
Forest Nymph by Fritz Zuber-Buhler
Joan of Arc in painting
Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage
Joan of Arc, the medieval teenaged martyr from the French province of Lorraine, gained new status as a patriotic symbol when France ceded part of the territory to the German Empire after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). Bastien-Lepage, a native of Lorraine, depicts the moment when Saints Michael, Margaret, and Catherine appear to the peasant girlContinue reading “Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage”
The Revelation by Gaston Bussiere
After the Masquerade by Alexander Nikanorovich Novoskoltsev
L’Ambitieuse by James Tissot
“L’Ambitieuse (Political Woman),” also referred to as “The Reception,” belongs to a series of fifteen large paintings that James Tissot executed between 1883 and 1885. The series, entitled “La femme à Paris,” contains some of his most trenchant observations and comments on late nineteenth-century Parisian society. The political arena inhabited by this painting’s subject isContinue reading “L’Ambitieuse by James Tissot”
Mysterious Art Century 