BEAUTYS AWAKENING

Description

Drawings by the PreRaphaelites and Their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection. Encompassing the entire Victorian era, this exhibition catalogue charts the broad evolution of British draftsmanship and illustrates the new appreciation developed for the art of drawing from 1837 to 1901.While inviting contemplation of artists operating within the Aesthetic Movement and the Arts and Crafts Movement, Beautys Awakening highlights the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists, Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as well as that of Academic champions Edward Poynter and Frederic Leighton.