Pre-Raphaelites
dal 11/9/2012 al 12/1/2013
Segnalato da
11/9/2012
Pre-Raphaelites
Tate Britain, London
Victorian Avant-Garde. This exhibition brings together over 150 works in different media, including painting, sculpture, photography and the applied arts, revealing the Pre-Raphaelites to be advanced in their approach to every genre. Led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) rebelled against the art establishment of the mid-nineteenth century, taking inspiration from early Renaissance painting.
Combining rebellion, beauty, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelites constitute Britain’s first modern art movement. This exhibition brings together over 150 works in different media, including painting, sculpture, photography and the applied arts, revealing the Pre-Raphaelites to be advanced in their approach to every genre. Led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) rebelled against the art establishment of the mid-nineteenth century, taking inspiration from early Renaissance painting.
The exhibition establishes the PRB as an early example of the avant-garde: painters who self-consciously overturned orthodoxy and established a new benchmark for modern painting and design. It will include many famous Pre-Raphaelite works, and will also re-introduce some rarely seen masterpieces including Ford Madox Brown’s polemical Work 1852–65 and the 1858 wardrobe designed by Philip Webb and painted by Edward Burne-Jones on the theme of The Prioress’s Tale.
You’ll also see John Everett Millais’s first painting ‘en plein air’ entitled: Ferdinand Lured by Ariel 1849-50 and the politically charged: A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew’s Day, refusing to shield himself from danger by wearing the Roman Catholic Badge 1851-2. The exhibition shows that the Pre-Raphaelite environment was widely encompassing in its reach across the fine and decorative arts, in response to a fast-changing religious and political backdrop, and in its relationship to women practitioners
Related events
Private view
Scented Visions: A multisensory tour of the Pre-Raphaelites exhibition and private view
Wednesday 12 September 2012, 18.30–19.30 and 20.00–21.00
Special event
Tate Wine Club: Australian wine tasting
Thursday 20 September 2012, 19.00 – 22.00
Talks and lectures
Pre-Raphaelites: guided exhibition tours
Exhibition tours take place Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 12.15 (excluding bank holidays)
British Sign Language talk: Pre-Raphaelites
Friday 19 October 2012, 19.00 – 20.00
Visual description talk: Pre-Raphaelites
Monday 19 November 2012, 11.00 – 12.30
Curator’s talk and private view: Pre-Raphaelites
Monday 19 November 2012, 18.30 – 20.00
Tate Britain
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Opening 12 september
Tate Britain
Millbank - London
Opening times
10.00–18.00, Saturday–Thursday
Last admission to special exhibitions is at 17.15
10.00–22.00, Friday
Last admission to special exhibitions is at 21.15
Admission £14