Exhibition John Everett Millais - London - Amsterdam

John Everett Millais founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in late 1848, together with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. This group of painters, poets and critics rejected the academism prescribed by the traditionalist Royal Academy and propagated a return to the honest simplicity in art they saw as having been lost after the Renaissance. The exhibition reveals the shifts in Millais’ style, from the most audacious ‘primitive’ and confrontational works dating from his Pre-Raphaelite period to popular nostalgic subjects including his famous society portraits and the evocative late landscapes that also charmed Vincent van Gogh.

In the image: Mariana

Exhibition: Millais

Where and When:

London, Tate Gallery, until 13 january 2008
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, from 15 february 2008 until 18 may 2008

from June to October 2008 the exhibition will travel to Japan