The document discusses the Victorian period in Britain through a series of questions and answers. Some key points covered include: the Victorian period was also known as the Machine Age due to the industrial revolution; paintings shifted from depicting Britain's triumphs to its decay; dreams and nightmares became popular themes as they expressed social conditions; religious paintings declined as scientific discoveries questioned biblical teachings; Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection challenged ideas of God's creation; and the 1890s saw increased social scandals and celebration of life as moral restrictions loosened.

1. THE VICTORIAN
PERIOD
Maria Paula Quintero
Maria Camila Beltran
Sofia Ramirez

2. QUESTIONS

3. 1.WHICH WAS ANOTHER NAME FOR
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD? WHY?

4. 2.HOW ARE PAINTINGS FROM BRITAIN'S
TRIUMPHS DIFFERENT FROM PAINTINGS
OF VICTORIAN ERA'S DECAY?

5. 3.WHY DO YOU THINK DREAMS
AND NIGHTMARES BECAME ONE
OF THE MOST INSPIRING THEMES
FOR PAINTERS?

6. 4.WHY WERE RELIGIOUS
PICTURES AND PAINTINGS
BEGINNING TO CRUMBLE?

7. 5.DURING VICTORIAN PERIOD, THERE
WERE MANY SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
THAT DESTROYED BIBLE'S IMPORTANCE .
NAME ONE OF THE THEORIES THAT
QUESTIONED GOD'S CREATION

8. 6.HOW IS THE OBSESSION
WITH DEATH SUCH
IMPORTANT FOR ARTISTS?

9. 7.WHAT TYPE OF PAINTER
WAS RICHARD DADD?

10. 8.WHAT DID FASCINATION WITH FAIRIES
ALOUD PEOPLE TO? DID FAIRIES HAVE A
DARK SIDE? HOW WAS IT EXPRESSED?

11. 9. WHY DID NUDES
REPRESENT VICTORIANS?

12. 10.WHY DID THE LAST DECADE
BECAME TO BE KNOWN THE
NAUGHTY NINETIES?

13. ANSWERS
1. The Victorian period was also called "The Machine Age" because of the industrial revolution that substituted hand labor for
machines such as the steam engine, the steal machinery, petroleum products and transportation systems improvement such as
railroad system and ship transportation.
2. Paintings of Britain's triumphs were different from paintings of the Victorian era's decay because firsts, ones showed a
period of time when artist and people were proud of their country. They showed all the victories they had,showed a period
when times couldn't be better and people were happy. The second ones, showed a dark country devastated and the end of a
period that had brought wealth and power.
3. Dreams and nightmares became one of the most inspiring themes for paintings because they expressed the reality of
Victorians. Nightmares were shown in paintings as the dark and scarring side of social conditions and the mean side of Queen
Victoria.Dreams were the good and the magical side of their daily life, they showed the world through an optimistic view.
4. Religious paintings and pictures began to crumble because use new scientific discoveries were made public which made
people questioned the existence of God, people began to go beyond the answers they obtained from church and bible and
started formulating new theories of the creation of the world and the man.
5. The theory of the natural selection which states they evolutionary change occurs through variation between individuals,
some variants give the individual an extra survival probability.It was proposed by Darwing saying that species that started being
useless in evolution, were forced,by natural selection, to stop existing.

14. 6. Obsession with death is such important for artist because it represented the desire of knowing what
was the truth of the body after it left the world. Victorians believed that death as it was known it wasn't
the end of life. People wanted to obtain new theories of what could happen after someone died, they
knew something else must have happened so they expressed different ideas through art and pictures.
7. Richard Dadd was an English painter of the Victorian era who represented fairies and other
supernatural subjects and enigmatic scenes. He suffered of schizophrenia and wanted to kill people, he
killed his father and was arrested. During his life in prison he painted and learned to imagine new ways
of expressing creatures that had a devil and a pretty side.
8. Fascination with fairies allowed people to connect with nature, they did have a dark side which
contradicted the nice side everyone knew, it was expressed through paintings, showing an evil creature
with obscure intentions confronted with a creature with friendly intentions. They both were a different
way in which painters interpreted social daily situations and the both sides of each situation.
9. Nudes represented Victorians because they were always interested in sex, they had a lusty mentality
which was expressed in paintings. Victorians were accustomed to a sexual life based on women's body
shape, even if some times that shape was a little bit masculine.
10. The last decade became to be known the naughty nineties because people celebrated drinking,
dancing, and flirting. There were many social scandals and the beginning of the suffragette movement
( which ended with women voting) . There was also a hectic literary activity, there was a lot of drama
and criticism which led people to celebrate life to the limit.