Victorian art
Pre-Raphaelite era works
Victorian art refers to the visual arts produced during Queen Victoria's reign over Britain (1837–1901).
The era encompassed diverse styles—from academic painting and Pre-Raphaelite romanticism to decorative arts and early photography.
Victorian art often featured narrative scenes, moral themes, and meticulous detail: The museum's Victorian art collection includes several Rossetti paintings.
The term sometimes carries connotations of sentimentality or excessive ornamentation.
- Pre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodMid-century English artistic revolt
- portraitureArt of depicting people
- oil paintingArt made with linseed-bound pigments
- dark paletteColor range favoring shadows
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
William Morris · Realism · Gothic Revival · Allegory · moral instruction · Symbolism · decorative arts · Ophelia · fallen woman · Industrial Revolution · aquatint · drapery · muse · salon · easel · Royal Academy · chiaroscuro · Rossetti
- Public Domain ArtMona Lisa, Starry Night, classical paintings, old masters, Renaissance art
- vintage printswoodcut, engraving, lithograph, etching, botanical print
- royal treasurescrown jewels, imperial crown, royal regalia, imperial regalia, regalia
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Surrealism
Victorian artmodernist art
Experimental early-twentieth-century aesthetics
abstract expressionism · contemporary art · avant-garde art · postmodern art · Dadaism
Victorian artabstraction
Distilling to essential qualities
pure form · functional design · brutalism · art for art's sake · formalism