Photoshop had not been invented, but most female bodies in Victorian art were effectively airbrushed - usually painted by men as idealised ... Fawcett - sat for portraits. "These networks of ...

In the mid-19th century, photographs with ghostlike figures became collectible amusements thanks to the invention of the stereoscope – a device that created three-dimensional optical illusions.

famous portraits, and card sets that told stories. Among these collections of sights unseen were plenty of ghostly images. The Ghost in the Stereoscope, a colorized card, shows two men in open ...

A self-portrait by B.L. Hyde. Courtesy Cascadia Art Museum Her artistic ... Craig Sailor The News Tribune In the early 1900s, ...

London is ‘to promote through the medium of portraits the appreciation and understanding of the men and women who have made and are making British history and culture, and to promote the appreciation ...

Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...

Victorian Lettering: Jenna Blazevich They say ... Her past—riddled with abuse, oppression, and endless toil, all at the hands of men in her life—is a harrowing tale and one that goes to ...

An AI robot’s painting of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1.08 million, becoming the most valuable artwork by a humanoid robot ever to change hands at auction and ...

The artist Paul P. is a painter whose power comes from representing a scarcely documented, in-between generation of queer ...

A miniature depicting a young Victorian woman is the spur for a tale of male duplicity and female resourcefulness in The Portrait Girl by Nicole Swengley (Breakthrough Books £10.99). Jewellery ...

A24 is an independent film studio, but don't call any of its movies "indie." Founded in 2012, A24 is the product of Hollywood ...

and not at a Victorian mansion overlooking the ocean." The waiting people strike her as "comically ordinary next to the velvet drapes and the gilt-framed portraits of bearded men lining the wall ...