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Contrary to the monochrome vision of Queen Victoria’s mourning
dresses and the coal-polluted streets of Charles Dickens’ London,
Victorian Britain was, in fact, a period of new and vivid colours.
The Industrial Revolution had transformed the Victorians’
perception of colour and, over the course of the second half of the
19th century, it became the key signifier of modern life. Colour
Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design charts the
Victorians’ new attitudes to colour through a multi-disciplinary
exploration of culture, technology, art and literature. The
catalogue explores key ‘chromatic’ moments that inspired
Victorian artists and writers to think anew about the materiality
of colour. Rebelling against the bleakness of the industrial
present, these figures learned from the sacred colours of the past,
the sumptuous colours of the Middle East and Japan and looked
forward towards the decadent colours that defined the end of the
century.Â
The Wellby Bequest, received by the Ashmolean Museum in 2013,
consists of some 500 precious and exotic objects, mainly from
Continental Europe, from the late medieval to the rococo, and is
the most remarkable accession of this kind of material to any
museum in the UK since the bequest of Ferdinand de Rothschild to
the British Museum in 1898 (the Waddesdon Bequest). The collection
was assembled by three generations of the Wellby family with an
intention that it should reflect the great princely treasure
chambers (Kunstkammer) preserved in Dresden, Vienna, Innsbruck, and
elsewhere. Many of these objects have never been previously
published. This beautiful and accessible book introduces over sixty
of the prime pieces from this astonishing addition to the
Ashmolean, presenting material of the type incomparably superior to
anything in other UK museums outside London. Both authors are
specialists in European decorative arts of the Renaissance and
later periods.
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