Victorian art

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Victorian art is a 19th-century British artistic style characterized by detailed realism, moral and literary themes, and often sentimental or romanticized depictions of historical and contemporary subjects.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Victorian art canonical 12
Victorian art criticism 1
Victorian decorative arts 1

Statements (81)

Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century art
art movement
associatedWith British middle class patrons
Royal Academy of Arts
Victorian literature
Victorian morality
characterizedBy attention to detail
contemporary subjects
detailed realism
high finish
historical subjects
literary themes
moral themes
narrative content
romanticized depictions
sentimental depictions
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
culturalContext British Empire
Industrial Revolution
rise of mass print culture
urbanization in Britain
endTime 1901
followedBy Aestheticism
Art Nouveau
Arts and Crafts movement
follows Neoclassicism
Romanticism
hasNotableArtist Aubrey Beardsley
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edward Burne-Jones
Ford Madox Brown
Frederic Leighton
George Frederic Watts
Hubert von Herkomer
James McNeill Whistler
James Tissot
John Everett Millais
John William Waterhouse
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Samuel Luke Fildes
surface form: Luke Fildes

William Holman Hunt
William Morris
William Powell Frith
hasPart Victorian architecture
Victorian decorative arts
Victorian art self-linksurface differs
surface form: Victorian illustration

Victorian painting
Victorian art self-linksurface differs
surface form: Victorian sculpture
includesMovement Aestheticism
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Social realist art in Britain
influenced Aesthetic Movement in Britain
surface form: Aesthetic movement

Arts and Crafts movement
Edwardian art
influencedBy British imperialism
Christian morality
Romantic literature
classical literature
industrialization
medieval revival
social reform movements
namedAfter Queen Victoria
startTime 1837
timePeriod 19th century
Victorian era
typicalSubject allegorical scenes
animal painting
biblical scenes
genre scenes
historical painting
landscape painting
portraiture
scenes of domestic life
scenes of poverty and social issues
usedMedium ceramics
engraving
furniture design
illustrated books
oil painting
stained glass
watercolour

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Ophelia movementAssociatedWith Victorian art
The Awakening Conscience partOf Victorian art
John Everett Millais movement Victorian art
John Ruskin movement Victorian art
this entity surface form: Victorian art criticism
Mariana partOf Victorian art
Abraham Solomon movement Victorian art
Habet! in the Colosseum movement Victorian art
John Tenniel movement Victorian art
Emma Hill associatedWithMovement Victorian art
William Henry Margetson movement Victorian art
Victorian art hasPart Victorian art self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Victorian sculpture
Victorian art hasPart Victorian art self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Victorian illustration
Frederic George Stephens movement Victorian art
George Frederic Watts movement Victorian art
William Millais movement Victorian art
Eastlake style partOf Victorian art
this entity surface form: Victorian decorative arts