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These Victorian painters are often framed as a guilty pleasure. But, as this intriguing exhibition makes clear, there is actually very little to feel guilty about

Organized in partnership with Tate Britain, the show places Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s art and writing alongside that of his extraordinarily creative family.

The Rossettis

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's influential painting 'Lady Lilith' is currently on view in the exhibition "The Rossettis" at Tate Britain.

How the Rossettis and their circle turned the gendered conflicts of Victorian society into art.

Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled by this exhibition

‘A queer fellow’ is how John Everett Millais described Dante Gabriel Rossetti after his death, ‘so dogmatic and so irritable when opposed.’ What’s queer in England is quite normal in Italy, where heated arguments are described as ‘discussioni’, but history has tended to forget that Rossetti was Italian. His fellow Pre-Raphaelites, however, were very conscious

Steve McQueen’s dizzying film of the ruin of Grenfell Tower is a rite of pure observation. Elsewhere, the star of the Tate’s pre-Raphaelite sibling show isn’t a painter…

There’s poetry on the walls in this fascinating examination of these mainstays of the Pre-Raphaelite movement

Dante Gabriel’s paintings are shown up by his sister Christina’s poetry in this baffling, overblown exhibition about the decidedly non-revolutionary pre-Raphaelites