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Curator’s talk and private view with Carol Jacobi Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde

15 October 2012 at 19.30–21.30
Edward Coley Burne-Jones Laus Veneris 1873-1878

Edward Coley Burne-Jones Laus Veneris 1873–8

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Tate curator Carol Jacobi talks about the way the male and female Pre-Raphaelite painters challenged the sexual conventions of their times through their experimental lives and art. Followed by a private view of the exhibition.

Carol Jacobi is Curator of British Art 1850–1915 at Tate Britain and a specialist on nineteenth-century British Art. She is the author of William Holman Hunt: Painter, Painting, Paint (2006) and she co-curated the exhibition William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision.

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15 October 2012 at 19.30–21.30

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