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Kamis, 26 April 2012

Love and Death: Victorian Paintings from Tate



Love and Death: Victorian Paintings from Tate

Love and Death: Victorian Paintings from Tate
8th September 2012 - 13th January 2013
This autumn eleven of the most spectacular paintings in the national collection come to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
This exclusive exhibition will display iconic paintings from Tate alongside related works from Birmingham’s own collection.  The centrepiece will be John William Waterhouse’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1888), one of Tate’s most famous and popular works, which rarely travels outside London.  It will be joined by two other paintings by Waterhouse: a rare opportunity to see this artist inBirmingham.
The exhibition also features classical paintings by the great 19th-century artists Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, revealing the Victorian fascination with re-imagining life in Greece and Rome, from lovers’ flirtations to dramatic martyrdom.
Exploring themes of love, beauty, tragedy and death, these powerful and moving paintings will create a spectacular display.
Gallery 12 & 13. Free admission.

Selasa, 13 Desember 2011

Brabazon paintings come to the aid of Tricycle Theatre

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52379
LONDON.- Government funding struck Tricycle Theatre has found a new saviour in the form of art collector and philanthropist Al Weil. Weil is giving around 35 paintings by the renowned Victorian watercolourist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon to the theatre, to exhibit and auction, using the proceeds to support its activities.

Sabtu, 28 Mei 2011

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