'Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War'
By History of Art Department at the University of York
Date and time
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 18:30 - 20:00 GMT
Location
Bowland Auditorium BS/005 University of York
Description
Join Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn as she presents an extended comparison of the two images on the cover of her book by the same name.
(Edward Burne-Jones, The Fifth Day from The Days of Creation, 1875-76, watercolour, gouache, shell gold, and platinum paint, on linen-covered panel prepared with zinc white ground, 102.1 x 36 cm, Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.458 and Piero della Francesca, The Nativity, 1470-75, oil on poplar, 124.4 x 122.6 cm, National Gallery, London (NG 908: Bought, 1874)).