TATE BRITAIN
INTRODUCTION
2.38
The great Neoclassical building before you is the "temple" of British art from the 16th to the 20th century. In 1892 works were placed here that mostly came from the National Gallery; all...
ENGLISH SCHOOL BEGINNINGS
3.06
After admiring the 19th and 20th-century sculptures exhibited in the Duveen Gallery, take some time to see the the great depictions of Henry Moore to your left.
Let me start by telling you that for...
ROMANTICISM
3.00
As I mentioned, in the 18th century landscapes became a specialization of English art, thanks also to the extended London stay of one of the best landscape painters of the century: Canaletto.
Here at...
PRE-RAPHAELITES
3.11
An important group of rooms house the works of the most famous group of 19th-century British painters, the so-called "Pre-Raphaelites". In a very characteristic expression of Victorian...
OPHELIA MILLAIS
2.49
Now I'd like to tell you about Ophelia by John Everett Millais, which is one of the most important works you can admire in the Pre-Raphaelite section. It depicts one of Shakespeare's characters: the...
TURNER
3.12
The section dedicated to William Turner fully justifies your visit to Tate Britain by itself. He was born in 1775 and died in the mid-1800s, and was certainly one of the most fascinating, autonomous,...
