Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic Painting from National Museums Liverpool

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, challenged convention in Victorian Britain and endeavoured to overthrow the art orthodoxy of the time through a return to the classical roots of Italian 15th-century painting, renowned for its rich and complex form of expression. Composed of works usually housed at the National Museums Liverpool, a collection of museums and galleries known for their vast collections of Pre-Raphaelite art, this show at the Bunkamura also highlights the brotherhood's later representatives, including the multi-talented Edward Burne-Jones and the Dutch-born Lawrence Alma-Tadema. In total, around 70 pieces are displayed, making for a deep dive into the formative days of modern British art.