‘Pre-Raphaelites and Italy’ opens at the renovated Ashmolean, Oxford

15th September – 5th December 2010
The newly renovated Ashmolean will inaugurate the major new exhibition programme with a show dedicated to The Pre-Raphaelites in four new exhibition galleries. Italy, its landscape, literature, art and history, was a central reference point for the movement known as Pre-Raphaelitism in the 1850s and 1860s. The exhibition will explore the Pre-Raphaelites’s interest in Italian literature and landscape for the first time. Oxford’s 300-year-old art museum, The Ashmolean was reopened in December 2009 following a £61m redevelopment programme. Stay at the Four Pillars Oxford Thames for as little as £35 per person, per night.

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