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Mon 6 Nov, 2017 Gallery, Research Forum, Research Seminars
The Idyllists: their Art and their Legacy
The recent publication of ‘Frederick Walker and the Idyllists’ seeks to reposition this once important group of artists working in the second half of nineteenth-century London. Centred on the figure of the painter and watercolourist Frederick Walker (1840-1875), these artists enjoyed a certain celebrity status during their lifetimes. Together with Walker…
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Tue 3 May, 2016 Gallery
Rodin’s Gates of Hell: from Dante to Baudelaire
This paper discusses the literary sources of Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell and in particular the artist’s highly personal interpretation of Dante’s Inferno. The Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition of Botticelli’s drawings after Dante’s Divine Comedy provides an ideal framework for presenting current research into Rodin’s use of Dante in the making of his monumental Gates of Hell. Rodin’s Gates are the…
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