Birth of Victor Hugo Commemorated in China Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangdong Province, began a series of memorial events on Saturday marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of ...

Victor Hugo, Mushroom, 1850. CCØ Paris Musées / Maisons de Victor Hugo The Bowels of Leviathan is one of the largest and most abstract pieces in the exhibition.

Victor Hugo was "the French equivalent of Shakespeare and Dickens", said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. We've all absorbed the myths he created – "Les Misérables", "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ...

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables, but less known is his work as an illustrator – the subject of a new exhibition in London.

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables, but less known is his work as an illustrator — now the subject of a new exhibition in London.

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables, but less known is his work as an illustrator - now the subject of a new exhibition in London.

In September 1843, Victor Hugo was on a sunlit walk while travelling with his mistress in the Pyrenees. ... To wander into that mind’s eye at the Royal Academy is a rare delight.

Mushroom is one of some 70 works by the French author to go on display at the RA’s Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, which Lea curated.‘It's a long overdue exhibition. The last major ...

Indeed, for Victor Hugo, making pictures was another mode of thought, though a less finished product than his prose. There’s an awful lot of brown ink here, though he diversifies into pencil or ...

Spiders, lonely towers, ecstatic octopuses and gigantic anthropomorphic mushrooms: welcome to the visual world of Victor Hugo.While the Les Mis author must have been one of the busiest people of ...

Wander through Beaux-Arts architect Henri Labrouste’s 1868 reading room at Bibliotheque Nationale de France and you realise what an astonishing place it is. The garlanded cast-iron pillars hold ...