Founder's Day Lecture.
Sat 19 Oct
|Birmingham
Liz Prettejohn and Peter Trippi will present an illustrated lecture about the exhibition they curated in Forli, Italy.
Time & Location
19 Oct 2024, 11:45 – 13:00
Birmingham, 9 Margaret St, Birmingham B3 3BS, UK
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About the event
'Bringing the Pre-Raphaelites to Italy: What Happened? What Next?' Lecture given by Liz Prettejohn and Peter Trippi.
This Spring (24 February-30 June 2024), almost 125.000 visitors - primarily Italian - have visited the Museo San Domenico in Forli, near Bologna, to experience its landmark loan exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance. Through its 350 artworks and 600 page catalogue, the project traces the profound impact of historical Italian art on the ever-evolving Pre-Raphaelite movement between the 1840 and 1920s by placing British works alongside an unpresedented large number of their Italian forerunners.
On view in Forli are fine and decorative artworks borrowed from museums and private collections worldwide, including the British Museum, V&A, Royal Academy, Royal Collection, Florence Gallerie degli Uffizi, and Rome's Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. The artists represented include not only renowned figures like Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt, Ruskin, Burne-Jones, Morris, Leighton and Watts, but also dozens less familiar to…
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Founder's Day Lecture
'Bringing the Pre-Raphaelites to Italy: What Happened? What Next? Liz Prettejohn and Peter Trippi.
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