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The Library at Strawberry Hill, c. 1790. Photo: The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
LONDON
.- Last October London Art Week introduced a new series of interim online events: Art History in Focus. Another impressive line-up of insightful and lively talks will be taking place this March.
16 March The Female Artists, Actresses, and Playwrights of Strawberry Hill Theatricals
This webinar will explore the role of female artists, actresses, and playwrights involved with theatre at Horace Walpoles Strawberry Hill; present illustrations of Walpoles scandalous gothic play The Mysterious Mother by the artist Diana Beauclerk and the closet built to house them at Strawberry Hill and will also touch on Walpoles literary executor Mary Berrys play Fashionable Friends, performed at Strawberry Hill with sets designed by her sister Agnes and with herself and the sculptor Anne Damer in the leading roles. Damer had a close relationship with the famous actress Eliza Farren, re
While Dante’s
Divine Comedy has exerted an unparalleled influence on poets over the centuries, the worlds he described also shaped the visual imagination of Renaissance artists from his contemporary Giotto to Michelangelo. This year is the 700th anniversary of the death of the poet and to mark the occasion the Uffizi is organising a major exhibition in the northern Italian town of Forlì, where Dante fled from Florence in 1302; loans from the Uffizi and from other institutions worldwide will be on display, including Andrea del Castegno’s famous portraits of the poet, Pontormo’s
Expulsion from Paradise, and 19th-century paintings and sculptures that reveal the importance of Dante’s writing to the Romantics.