The Rossettis at Tate Britain exhibition review
Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled by this exhibition
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Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled by this exhibition
‘A queer fellow’ is how John Everett Millais described Dante Gabriel Rossetti after his death, ‘so dogmatic and so irritable when opposed.’ What’s queer in England is quite normal in Italy, where heated arguments are described as ‘discussioni’, but history has tended to forget that Rossetti was Italian. His fellow Pre-Raphaelites, however, were very conscious
Steve McQueen’s dizzying film of the ruin of Grenfell Tower is a rite of pure observation. Elsewhere, the star of the Tate’s pre-Raphaelite sibling show isn’t a painter…
There’s poetry on the walls in this fascinating examination of these mainstays of the Pre-Raphaelite movement
Dante Gabriel’s paintings are shown up by his sister Christina’s poetry in this baffling, overblown exhibition about the decidedly non-revolutionary pre-Raphaelites