Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Poetry - Laing Art Gallery
Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Poetry - Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle on Saturday, 17 October 2026, 00:00, at Laing Art Gallery. This autumn and winter, visitors will have...
This autumn and winter, visitors will have the chance to see the first large-scale exhibition to explore the connections between Pre-Raphaelite art and poetry.The Pre-Raphaelite circle included both artists and writers. The leading visual artists of Pre-Raphaelitism’s first phase, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, bonded over their admiration of the Romantic poet John Keats. Along with medieval and early Renaissance art and a commitment to closely observing nature, literature was their key inspiration. Some of the poems they most admired told stories of love and peril in the medieval world. The artists translated these stories from word to image in a modern way, covering their canvases with elaborate...
- Date
- Saturday, 17 October 2026
- Time
- 00:00
- Venue
- Laing Art Gallery
- Address
- Laing Art Gallery, New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AG
- Price
- Check official price