"Catalog of an exhibition held at Manchester Art Gallery, Oct. 5, 2012-Jan. 27, 2013; at Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, Apr. 20-June 9, 2013; and at Southampton SeaCity Museum, Sept. 27, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014."
"The Chariot Race (detail), c. 1872, by Alexander von Wagner. Published by Pomegranate with the Manchester Art Gallery.During the twilight years of the moving panorama--a sort of early motion picture that involved vast paintings reeled past enthusiastic audiences--and the first wave of photography, easel painters confronted a crisis. Nothing short of the spectacular could seize people's attention. A spectacle is precisely what the Hungar ..."
"Britain's first and best-known radical art movement emerged from within the Royal Academy in 1848, its original members were art students who were disillusioned with contemporary practice. Calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, they looked back to Italian art before Raphael, seeing the pre-1500 period as one of great sincerity. In an age of rapid industrial and urban expansion, the Pre-Raphaelites prized quality workmanship ..."