A Tale to Tell: Narrative Paintings from the Collection
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Exhibition Details
Following the popular Love and Death: Art in the age of Queen Victoria exhibition in 2003, the Gallery is highlighting its own Victorian collection in A Tale to Tell.
Long after Victorian art went out of fashion in England it remained popular in the colonies. As social commentary it may well have reflected idealised memories of a society that had been left behind by immigrants to new lands.
While 19th century painters loved to depict a moment in a narrative drawn from history, literature or the society of their own time, equally the overriding themes of yearning and desire underlying so many of these images speak of a social need for an aesthetic experience that exists beyond the familiar world of everyday life.
- Date
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- Curated by
- Mary Kisler
- Location
- Main Gallery
- Cost
- Free entry
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The First Commission: Sir Thos. Lawrence, President of the R.A., as a Boy
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The Finding of Moses
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The Spirit of the Summit
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Lamia
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Cleopatra
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Married
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