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Women Artists: Pathways through Pre-Raphaelitism (1850-1914)
A survey of over forty women artists linked to the Pre-Raphaelite movement, tracing their careers and creative paths through the Victorian era.
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Not all of it hangs on a wall as a painting. The nine sections also include photographs, textiles, ceramics, enamels and stained-glass drawings, all by women who worked in or around Pre-Raphaelitism between 1850 and 1914.
Curator Pamela Gerrish Nunn assembled 130 works by 40 artists from 65 public and private collections, including Elizabeth Siddal, Julia Margaret Cameron and May Morris. Critic Carles Toribio wrote in Bonart that there is "no single female Pre-Raphaelite movement" and that the show turns a fixed doctrine into "a field of tensions". Sixty-five lenders is more than your group chat has ever coordinated for a Saturday brunch.
Entry is €5, or €3 reduced, and free on Mondays from 14:00 to 20:00. The audio guide is included, but headphones cost €1. Guided tours are €7 and in Spanish only.
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Elizabeth Siddal is usually the face in the painting; here she is one of 40 artists on the walls, alongside Julia Margaret Cameron and May Morris. Bonart says the show turns a fixed doctrine into "a field of tensions".
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The Pale Complexion of True Love, 1899
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale's picture is on loan from the Musée d'Orsay.
Honour to Women, 1912
A tapestry, one of the textile works that sit alongside the paintings.
Julia Margaret Cameron's Alethea, 1872
Cameron is shown here among the photographers in a show otherwise full of painters.
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- Women Artists: Pathways through Pre-Raphaelitism (1850-1914)© Musée d’Orsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Sophie Crépy
- Fueron tejidos. Teresa LancetaCourtesy of Museo Arqueológico Nacional
- Vitrina CERO: Back to Childhood — Prehistory and Antiquity© Esperanza Martín para el Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Santillana del Mar (Cantabria)
- La vida en la frontera. Finds from the Castle of Monreal de ArizaCourtesy of Museo Arqueológico Nacional
- Fundación MAPFRE – Sala RecoletosBeautyriver1010, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo Arqueológico NacionalCoralma*, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Casa de AméricaCarlos Delgado (Kadellar), CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo NavalFernando, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo Nacional de Artes DecorativasLuis García (Zaqarbal), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0