videos + essays

Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon (or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
Gauguin contemplates modern culture’s distance from spirituality in this vivid, evocative canvas.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ecce Ancilla Domini
Both Millais and Hunt offered to help Rossetti correct the perspective in his Annunciation scene–why did he refuse?

Sir John Everett Millais, Christ in the House of His Parents
Charles Dickens took umbrage with this unusual depiction of the Holy Family—find out why.