Angelica Kauffman
This modest exhibition is narrowly focussed on Angelica and her career leaving many questions still to be explored.
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Fine and Decorative Art: Miriam Al Jamil
Media: Gráinne O’Hare
Music: Brianna Robertson-Kirkland
Theatre: Katie Noble
This modest exhibition is narrowly focussed on Angelica and her career leaving many questions still to be explored.
an ambitious attempt to set Blake and his ideas and works within broader contexts: of his artistic circle, of European classical traditions and of the wider, creative ‘background mood’ of his
Georgian Illuminations at the Sir John Soane’s Museum successfully exhibited, in all their jostling and juxtaposed glory, contemporary attitudes towards the light shows emerging out of and
This tightly knit exhibition brings out the most important aspects of Liotard’s long career and whets one’s appetite to find out more about him.
This small but impeccably chosen collection of 20 drawings makes good use of the Courtauld’s collection.
With plans to remount the portrait of Francis Williams in the British Galleries, it is hoped that the V&A will make space to provide an opportunity for the story of Williams’s personhood and his
A stimulating exhibition and leaves one with the regret that this anniversary was not seized upon for a major show of Britain’s leading and most successful 18th-century portrait painter.
We become involved in George IV’s ‘right royal spectacle’ at the Pavilion through images, objects and music, within one of the most glorious of palaces to visit. It does not disappoint on each
This exhibition very obviously stems from the curator’s love of dogs — in real life as much as in art — a fondness that is palpable from the range of works on display, many of which demonstrate
Style and Society successfully combines fashion and portraiture to retell personal histories and narratives of the Georgian period, and to trace the development and transformation of key concepts,