Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a towering author and poet, but his strange work is more interesting and ...

A giant mushroom towers over a blasted landscape. A rampant octopus performs otherworldly semaphore with improbably knotted ...

One of the 19th century’s greatest writers, Hugo also found time to produce art admired by founder of surrealism Andre Breton ...

Mention the name “Victor Hugo” and most people immediately think of his masterpiece Les Misérables, famously adapted into the ...

Sculptor Antony Gormley and Professor of French literature, Catriona Seth discuss Victor Hugo's visual art with Tom Sutcliffe. Victor Hugo was a 19th century cultural colossus, known for monumental ...

Sulpice, the Paris skyline symbolises the legacy left behind by Victor Hugo. Ahead of a new show opening at the Royal Academy, Michael Hodges follows the path of the celebrated French writer and ...

Victor Hugo’s The Town of Vianden, with Stone Cross (1871) - Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits ...

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Spring is on its way! Chatsworth opens its doors to a new exhibition curated by Allegra Pesenti and designed by Pippa Nissen.

The drawings are fascinating, too, for the experimentation of their techniques. Striving for dramatic effects of light and shade, Hugo played with surprising methods, including using a feather’s ...

Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.