Pre-Raphaelite works from Tate Britain coming to Milan's Royal Palace

For the first time in Milan, thanks to a collaborative project between the Royal Palace and London’s Tate Britain, paintings belonging to the Pre-Raphaelite circle will be featured in an exhibition.

The exhibition, entitled Pre-Raphaelites. Love and Desire, will be open to the public from June 19 to October 6, 2019; curated by Carol Jacobi, Curator British Art of the London museum, the exhibition has the scientific contribution of Maria Teresa Benedetti regarding the relationship of the Pre-Raphaelites with Italy, and is promoted and produced by the City of Milan-Cultura, Palazzo Reale and 24 ORE Cultura-Gruppo 24 ORE.

About eighty works created by eighteen Pre-Raphaelite artists will be on display in the exhibition: including iconic works that rarely leave the United Kingdom, such as John Everett Millais’Ophelia, Arthur Hughes’ April Love, and John William Waterhouse’s Lady of Shalott.
These masterpieces from Tate Britain will tell visitors about the poetics of the Pre-Raphaelite movement through thematic sections: from love and desire to fidelity to nature and its faithful reproduction; medieval stories, poetry, myth, and beauty in all its forms.

Particular emphasis will be placed on the impact the artistic movement produced on the way art was conceived, showing how the Pre-Raphaelites’ fascination is still extraordinarily relevant today. Central will be the theme of the Pre-Raphaelite artists’ poetics, which owes to art and in general to pre-Renaissance Italian culture that idea of medieval modernity that characterizes it. Witnessing this will be paintings on Dante Alighieri and his poem(Paolo and Francesca and Dante’s Dream at the Time of Beatrice’s Death by Dante Gabriel Rossetti) to the Italian landscape tout court( John Brett’s View ofFlorence from Bellosguardo ).

In addition, on the evenings of Tuesday, Wednesday, June 18, 19 and Thursday, June 20, at 9:30 p.m. in Piazzetta Reale, some of the most famous paintings in the exhibition will come to life thanks to tableau vivant: six theater actors from the Neapolitan company Teatri 35 will bring to life for the viewer the perfectly reconstructed scenes of some of those paintings amid draperies and fabrics, music and lights. A half-hour performance designed to bring everyone closer to the strongly expressive and evocative Pre-Raphaelite art.

For info: palazzorealemilano.it
mostrapreraffaelliti.com

Hours: Monday from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Thursday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Tickets with audio guide: Full 14 euros, reduced 12 euros

Image: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Aurelia (Fazio’s Lover), (1863-73; oil on mahogany panel, 43.2 x 36.8 cm)Tate: Purchased with assistance from Sir Arthur Du Cros Bt and Sir Otto Beit KCMG through the Art Fund 1916

©Tate, London 2019

Pre-Raphaelite works from Tate Britain coming to Milan's Royal Palace

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