John William Godward

John William Godward The so-called Victorian High Medieval is highlighted by the works of art made by John William Godward. Somewhere through the 1890s, approximately simultaneous with the passing of two of the group's most prominent leaders, Frederic, Lord Leighton, and Albert Joseph Moore, his Greco-Roman works reached their height. Of course, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Godward's more well-known Victorian High Renaissance predecessor, continued his work throughout the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s. Meanwhile, Godward survived longer than any others and continued to paint his tranquil and melancholic Mediterranean figure works throughout the turbulent decades of World War...
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