Artist Series Episode 85: John William Waterhouse, or How to Make Mythology Beautiful Right Before Everything Goes Terribly Wrong

Waterhouse made doomed myths gorgeous, then hid danger in the lilies. The deeper you look, the stranger his paintings become…

Artist Series Episode 84: Dante Gabriel Rossetti — Lush Symbolism, Poetic Seduction, and a Wombat Problem

Rossetti mixed poetry, paint, beauty, scandal, and one famous wombat into Victorian art. Somehow, the story gets stranger…