Beauty's awakening
Subtitle: drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection
By: Dennis T. Lanigan, Christopher Newall ; edited by Sonia Del Re
Contributors: Del Re, Sonia, author, editor; Newall, Christopher, author; National Gallery of Canada
Publisher: National Gallery of Canada
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780888849328
Subjects: English Drawing; National Gallery of Canada; Art collections; Pre-Raphaelitism; Drawing; Exhibitions
Other titles: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection
Description: Encompassing the entire Victorian era, this exhibition charts the broad evolution of British draftsmanship and illustrates the new appreciation developed for the art of drawing during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901. While inviting contemplation of artists operating within the Aesthetic Movement and the Arts and Crafts Movement, the exhibition highlights the work of Pre-Raphaelite geniuses, 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. Through its range of subject matter, techniques and functions – from preparatory sketches to highly finished drawings intended as works of art in and of themselves – Beauty’s Awakening expresses the richness, diversity and flair of Victorian draftsmanship as seen through the eyes of a discerning collector. --http://www.gallery.ca.
Notes: Exhibition catalogue.

Issued also in French under title: L'éveil de la beauté, dessins des préraphaélites et de leurs contemporains tirés de la collection Lanigan.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, "organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in Ottawa from 9 October 2015 to 3 January 2016 and at Leighton House, London, from 12 February to 29 May 2016." - t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.