The Pre-Raphaelites and The Italian Dream

Italy was a rich source of inspiration for the Pro-Raphaelites . British artists who formed a

confraternity in 1848 to declare their rejection of academic conventions in the name of expressive

naturalism. The exhibition organised by MAR, in co-operation with the Ashmolean Museum in

Oxford where it will move in September, explores the relationship between the Pre-Raphaelites

and the "Italian Dream" in literature, art, history and landscape, with a selection of 170 paintings,

engravings and preparatory cartoons for mosaics. Alongside works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

(including his famous illustrations for the Divine Comedy) Edward Brune-Jones, William Holman

Hunt and John Ruskin, there are paintings by Beato Angelico ( the Nativity and Prayer in the

Garden from the Civic Painting Gallery in Forli) Perugino ( Adoration of Christchild ) and other

Italian artists viewed as archetypes by the Pre-Raphaelites

Ravenna - MAR

Till 6th June 2010

www.museocitta.ra.it.