Dante Alighieri’s long-time courtly love interest and spiritual guide throughout The Divine Comedy, Beatrice Portinari, has shaped visual representations of female dignity for centuries. Yet, since ...

In the cultural ether of Victorian England, Lilith—an ancient Talmudic seductress and the mythical first wife of Adam—arose as a figure of renewed fascination in popular culture, and one who embodied ...

English painter John William Waterhouse loved to read Lord Alfred Tennyson. He loved the Victorian poet’s writing so much, in fact, that he allegedly filled every blank page of his copy of Tennyson’s ...