With an upcoming show devoted to the innovative and compelling sculpture of the Victorian period, Tate Britain‘s Sculpture Victorious illustrates how the art form featured in all aspects of Victorian politics, empire, and industry.
                                          Harry Bates. Pandora exhibited 1891
The retrospective Sculpture Victorious includes major Victorian sculptors such as Francis Chantrey and Albert Gilbert, underlines numerous, significant sculpture works produced during Queen Victoria’s reign ( 1837-1901), the Golden Age in terms of arts since the monarchical regime encouraged and commissioned a range of sculpture and decoration to ornament the new Houses of Parliament.
                           Thomas Longmore and John Hénk.  Elephant 1889
Among the highlights of the show is George Frampton’s life-size Dame Alice Owen 1897 in marble, alabaster, bronze, paint and gilding alongside finely-wrought silver and exquisitely-detailed electrotypes, such as James Sherwood Westmacott’s electroplated Baron Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester 1854, which has been removed from the House of Lords for the very first time for this exhibition; three pieces of jewellery from The Devonshire Parure 1856 made for Lady Granville, the 6th Duke of Devonshire’s niece, to wear when she represented Queen Victoria at the coronation of Tsar Alexander II in Moscow.
                         Frederic, Lord Leighton. An Athlete Wrestling with a Python 1877
by Xenia Founta
All the images courtesy of Tate
The exhibition is on from February 25 until May, 25 2015 at Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries . Open daily from 10.00 until 18.00
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