24 February – 12 June 2011

Twenty-five years after the successful retrospective dedicated to Burne-Jones, the National Gallery of Modern Art returns with an important exhibition on English art during the second half of the 19th century. More than 100 works from private lenders and international museums, many of which for the first time in Italy, are shown. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between English art in the 19th century and the Italian artistic culture, from the “taste of the primitives”up to the middle of the 16th century, and starts with the Italian inspired landscapes of William Turner. The main part of the exhibition includes Preraffaellites of the calibre of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. Another particularly significant aspect concerns the relationship between the English works and the Italian prototypes which formed the iconographic model and formal influence. So paintings by artists such as Giotto, Crivelli, Carpaccio, Botticelli, Sebastiano del Piombo, Palma il Vecchio, Bergognone, Luini, Tiziano, Veronese and Tintoretto have been included in the exhibition. A vicious circle of reciprocal influence, which starts in Italy, arrives in England, and then returns to Italy.

8 – 29 May – 12 – 26 June 2011
Extraordinary opening of the underground area and the upper third level. Guided visit to the Colosseum as never seen before.

15 April – 6 & 20 May – 4 June 2011
Guided visit to the exhibition
“Lorenzo Lotto” at the Scuderie
del Quirinale.

16 & 30 April 2011
Guided visit to the exhibition “Impressionism, Expressionism, Avant-garde” at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

24 February – 12 June 2011
Guided visit to the exhibition “Dante Gavriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones” at the National Gallery of Modern Art.