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A provocative new show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Exposed: The Victorian Nude," challenges conventional ideas about Victorian prudery by establishing that ...
Victorian erotica: the original cheeky girls. Guy Kennaway 11 May 2008 • 12:01am . ... The model lying naked on the couch is unquestionably the sublime woman in the iconic painting, ...
A gallery is to put a Victorian painting of naked adolescent girls back on display after a row over censorship. Manchester Art Gallery said it took down Hylas and the Nymphs by JW Waterhouse to ...
A gallery has temporarily removed a Victorian painting of naked adolescent girls in a move to "encourage debate" about how such images should be displayed in the modern age. Manchester Art Gallery ...
James McNeill Whistler, "Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl—Connie Gilchrist," c. 1876-77 Metropolitan Museum of Art At age 12, Gilchrist launched a novelty jump rope act at London’s ...
Where: Nevada Museum of Art, 160 West Liberty St. When: Now through May 30 Tickets: Adults - $10; Seniors, students - $8; children 5 and under - Free Jenny Kane covers arts and culture in Northern ...
The Netherlands' Rijksmuseum says a condom believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep's appendix, "depicts both the playful and the serious side of sexual health." ...
Alma-Tadema is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Victorian era, and the art world is abuzz with the re-discovery of this particular painting, notes ArtNet News. The ...
A STUNNING Victorian oil painting bought by a wealthy Accrington-born cotton mill owner for £800 sold for almost £1million at auction. ... 306 boys and 285 girls’.
Curator Clare Gannaway tells BBC Radio 4's The World at One the picture is "uncomfortable" A gallery has temporarily removed a Victorian painting of naked adolescent girls in a move to "encourage ...