The Netherlands' Rijksmuseum says a condom believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep's appendix, "depicts both the playful ...

The National Gallery in London announced today that after two centuries, they’ve finally acquired a canvas by the critical Dutch-born Victorian ... for the stunning oil painting, which depicts ...

But this is, ultimately, a Victorian domestic scene ... The Shop Girl, James Tissot, circa 1883-1885, oil on canvas Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift from Corporations' Subscription Fund, 1968.

For the influential Victorian art critic John Ruskin, such class distinctions were inevitable, and even desirable. Called before a parliamentary committee in 1860,he argued that the institution ...