Sotheby’s is promoting their Pre-Raphaelite Auction in July with a piece on a recent photo-shoot at the National Gallery in London focusing on Pre-Raphaelite Hair:
New Exhibition – Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters
June 30, 2018 – September 30, 2018 – San Francisco
Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is the first major exhibition to juxtapose examples by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with works that inspired its members, including Italian old masters Fra Angelico and Pietro Perugino and their northern contemporaries Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling. It reveals how the Brotherhood’s aesthetic evolved over time to embrace artistic influences from the High and late Renaissance, such as Titian and Veronese. It also offers a rich multimedia opportunity to examine the artists’ attraction to stained glass, domestic decorations, and sixteenth-century textiles.
https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/exhibitions/truth-and-beauty-pre-raphaelites-and-old-masters
Natsume Soseki and the Pre-Raphaelites
The Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki visited London in 1900 and found inspiration for his writings in Pre-Raphaelite paintings – especially Millais’s Ophelia and Hunt’s Lady of Shalott and The Hireling Shepherd.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/11/04/books/natsume-sosekis-pre-raphaelite-dreams/#.Wkhld4WBmDc
Poet Raza Hussain inspired by Hunt’s portrait of Rossetti
Art UK challenged four poets to write and perform original works based on paintings that have inspired them from the UK’s art collection.
Raza Hussain performs his poem ‘Raphaelites of Birmz’, inspired by the painting ‘Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)’ by William Holman Hunt. Filmed at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Read more about the painting and the poet: http://bit.ly/2rlyW03.
Exhibit: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites
A new exhibit at the National Gallery in London starts in October 2017 on Van Eyck’s influence on the Pre-Raphaelites. My book also touches on this.