Pre-Raphaelites @ Tate Britain

Love them or hate them: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the marmite of art history have landed centre stage at the Tate Britain this season. The YBA’s of the 19th century: John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt formed in 1848 in a bid to break away from the high renaissance art favoured by […]

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William Morris @ Two Temple Place

Two Temple Place is a neo-Gothic mansion on the London Embankment. In 1895, it cost £250,000 to build for William Waldorf Astor, equal to £25million today. The building, which was designed to characterize literature and embody art, craft and architecture, encompasses Spanish mahogany hammer-beam ceilings and marble floors. This dazzling and dramatic building is home […]

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