Dolce far Niente, a masterpiece by the reclusive and tragic Victorian Neo-classicist painter John William Godward, was sold for £248,750 at Bonhams 19th century European, Victorian and British ...

William Blake’s drawings, paintings, prints and illustrations are heavenly, cosmic, spiritual, mind-expanding and consciousness-raising. What they aren’t is large. The Yale Center for British Art, ...

My encounters with the work of the early English Romantic painter, engraver and poet William Blake (1757-1827) have been marked by respect, awe and sometimes bewilderment. Respect and awe because both ...

William Blake’s twin talents came from a singular genius. The entrancing paintings and engravings that make up his great art comprise the biblical and the phantasmagorical: shimmering angels and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. William Blake, "Jerusalem," Plate 28, is one of the 100 etched and illustrated plates that make up William Blake's epic poem ...

William Blake was a bit of a nut. That’s partly why we like him so much. The great British Romantic artist, whose lifespan (1757-1827) roughly corresponded with that of mad King George III, aimed to ...

Possessing an ethereal delicacy, at first seemingly naïve, but in actuality hinting at divine depths, William Blake’s paintings are truly visionary. But as respected as the English poet and painter ...

The artworks of William Blake are known for their highly charged, spiritual energy. Now, they are getting a high-tech new incarnation with “United Visions,” an augmented reality (AR) experience by ...

If painting is deaf poetry, as Simonedes suggested, then poetry is blind painting. William Blake’s art was complete, neither deaf nor blind. One of the great lyric poets in the language, he was almost ...

A crackling collection of experimental prints by William Blake resurrects the English poet-painter in all his radical frenzy, and foretells the limits of political art. By Walker Mimms Reporting from ...

William Blake was a bit of a nut. That’s partly why we like him so much. The great British Romantic artist, whose lifespan (1757-1827) roughly corresponded with that of mad King George III, aimed to ...