Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is the first major international exhibition to assemble works by England’s nineteenth-century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with the medieval and Renaissance masterpieces that inspired them. Important loans of paintings, works on paper, and decorative arts from international collections, as well as works drawn from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, demonstrate the Pre-Raphaelites’ fascination with Italian masters, including Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, and Paolo Veronese, as well as northern Renaissance painters such as Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling.
-- Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco
Though weary of the stilted beauty of the Pre-Raphaelites paintings, I came away enchanted by this well-curated, and sparkling exhibition, which juxtaposed the Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, relating the connections between these two groups, in the timeline of the artistic development of the Pre-Raphaelites. The amazing achievements of the Old Masters were self-evidence; while the Pre-Raphaelites impressed with their virtuosity and romantic beauty, however mannered they could be.
First group:
The Virgin and Child with an Angel, St George and a Donor, Hans Memling

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels, Master of the Saint Lucy Legend

Madonna and Child with Two Angels, Followers of Adriaen Isenbrandt

Virgin and Child, Dieric Bouts and or workshop

The Annunciation, Jan van Eyck

Mariana, John Everett Millais

Portrait of a Man, Lucas Cranach the Younger

The Ransom, John Everett Millais
Group 2:

The Holy Family, Perino del Vaga

Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist, Piero di Cosimo

Copy of The Annunciation by Fra Angelico, Cesare Mariannecci

The Meeting of Saints Dominic and Francis of Assisi, Fra Angelico

A Crowned Virgin Martyr (Saint Catherine of Alexandria), Bernardo Daddi

The Nativity, The Baptism of Christ, Christ and the Woman of Samaria, Noli me Tangere, Perugino

Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante's Dream
Valentine Reproaching Proteus for His Falsity, William Holman Hunt

Lorenzo and Isabella, John Everett Millais

Beata Beatrix, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Group 3:

Idealized Portrait of a Lady, Sandro Botticelli

Idealized Portrait of a Lady, Sandro Botticelli

Madonna and Child with Two Angels, Sandro Botticelli & The Virgin and Child, Workshop of Sandro Botticelli's
Portrait of a Lady Known as Smeralda Bandinelli, Sandro Botticelli

Flora & Proserpine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Love and the Maiden, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
Group 4:

Self-Portrait, Raphael

Lucretia, Paolo Veronese

Portrait of a Young Man with a Green Book, Giovanni Cariani

A Young Woman Holding a Mirror with Her Servant, Parus Bordone

La Pia, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Bocca Bacciata - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Heart of the Rose, Edward Burne-Jones
Group 5:

The Passing of Venus, Edward Burne-Jones

The Entombment, Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
Cupid's Hunting Fields, Edward Burne-Jones

The Wheel of Fortune & The Ascension, Edward Burne-Jones

The Tree of Forgiveness - A Mosaic in Rome, Edward Burne-Jones

Flora & Pomona, Edward Burne-Jones
Exhibition ends on September 30, 2018.
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