For centuries, handwoven cloth from the Kashmir region of the Indian subcontinent has been revered for its exquisite softness and decorative surface patterns.
Early Victorian
Unsettled by industrialization and the ugliness of the modern world, Victorians looked back to the Gothic style.
Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin, Palace of ...
The visual vocabulary of classical antiquity was well-suited to the the British Empire’s temple of knowledge.
Robert Smirke, The British Museum
A tribute to home, hearth, and hounds, this painting hung in Queen Victoria’s sitting room and earned her praise.
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