Although I have been in contact with one of the curators of an exhibition in Forli (Italy), I have missed news about the opening and it turns out that this was back in February: the exhibition ends on 30 June!
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| 'Preraffaelliti: Rinacsimento Moderno' [Website of the Comune di Forli (accessed 25 June 2024)] |
The show in the San Domenico Museum is called: 'Preraffaelliti. Rinascimento Moderno' (see the museum's website) and contains some works about and by Ricketts and Shannon.
Curated by Francesco Parisi, Liz Prettejohn and Peter Trippi (with Gianfranco Brunelli as the general director), there are 300 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, furniture, ceramics, glass and metal works, textiles, medals, illustrated books, manuscripts and jewellery, including works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Leighton, Frank Dicksee, Evelyn De Morgan, and Edward Burne Jones. The intention of the exhibition is to reconstruct 'the profound impact of historical Italian art on the British Pre-Raphaelite movement between the 1840s and the 1920s'. This information, however, is based on a preview on the website 'Finestre sull'Arte' (7 August 2023) - I have ordered but not yet seen the catalogue. See here for a link to a review of the show by Dennis T. Lanigan (on The Victorian Web).
Portraits of Ricketts and Shannon by Alphonse Legros (both from the Fitzwilliam Museum) are accompanied by some of their paintings, including Ricketts's 'The Deposition' (from the Bradford museum) and Shannon's 'Reaper and Sower' (see blog 639 about this theme).
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| Charles Ricketts, 'The Deposition' [Bradford Art Galleries and Museums] |