Masterpieces of Painting from the Victoria and Albert Museum
6 April - 6 May 1991 Hours: 9:30a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Admission: charged Although the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is popular for its extensive collection of decorative arts, it also possesses a rich collection of European old master painting and modern painting, based on the gifts by collectors such as John Sheepshanks, John Jones and Constantine Alexander Ionides. This exhibition introduces to Japanese people 50 European paintings of the Victoria and Albert Museum from Renaissance to Impressionism. To begin with Italian Renaissance tempera painting by Botticelli and Carlo Crivelli, through Spanish Painting of Golden Century such as Ribera, Velazquez and Murillo, Dutch painting of th 17th century as Rembrandt and Jan Steen, and Flemish painting by Rubens and Van Dyck, we attain to British painting from the 17th to 19th century including Joshua Reynolds and Gainsborough, romanticism represented by Fuseli, Blake, Constable and Turner to Pre-raphaelites as Rossetti and Burne-Jones, and French painting from the 17th century as Le Nain, through Boucher of the Rococo period and 19th century painters as Ingres, Delacroix and Courbet, to Impressionist painting by Degas. |
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