History of Art

I have now moved all my history of art notes to my own website at www.shafe.uk .

Pre-Raphaelite Technique In the nineteenth century canvases were bought from a colorman and the canvas was primed with rabbit skin glue ge...

The Jacobean Court There is currently a new general interest in court masques. They emerge from three principal types of festival: The ...

Van Dyck (1599-1641) - Part 2 - The Royal Portraits   Nicholas Lanier, 1628. Van Dyck took seven days to produce this work and it prese...

The original Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood seven were: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919, art critic...