Tag: French Revolution

  • Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830

    The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolution. However, despite the British Museum’s own superb and scholarly comprehensive exhibition entitled Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (2003), there seems…

  • Constable: The Great Landscapes

    Tate Britain, London 1 June-28 August 2006 This fascinating exhibition brings together several of Constable’s best-known pictures in the form of full-scale sketches – the so-called ‘six-footers’. These are supported and informed by works on other scales, sketches and documentary…