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Small But Mighty: Gainsborough’s House and Leighton House – Claudia Barbieri Childs

Small But Mighty: Gainsborough’s House and Leighton House – Claudia Barbieri Childs

by News Desk | Dec 16, 2024 | Reviews

Artists’ homes can offer an intriguing insight into their life and work. Gainsborough’s House in the silk-weaving town of Sudbury, in Suffolk, and Leighton House in the heart of Kensington, London, are two museums dedicated to their former residents. After recently...
Leighton House: Hidden Gem Reopens After A Dazzling Refurbishment

Leighton House: Hidden Gem Reopens After A Dazzling Refurbishment

by News Desk | Oct 7, 2022 | News

Leighton House has been restored to its former glory after a major refurbishment that has taken several years. The project saw the removal of walls dating from when the building served as a children’s library in the post-war era. This stunning aesthetic movement...
Alma Tadema Cinematic Blockbuster Painting – By Edward Lucie-Smith

Alma Tadema Cinematic Blockbuster Painting – By Edward Lucie-Smith

by News Desk | Aug 28, 2017 | Reviews

  At first glance, the late Victorian grandee who works is now in a show at Leighton House, and today’s culture hero Damien Hirst, leader of the YBA revolution of the 1990s, would seem to have little in common. The resemblances only begin to show themselves when...
ArtBytch: Black Spider Memos, Victorian Excess, And Smell-O-Vision Art At Leighton House

ArtBytch: Black Spider Memos, Victorian Excess, And Smell-O-Vision Art At Leighton House

by News Desk | Nov 28, 2014 | Features

Art history generally lauds the arrival of democracy in Greece in the 5th Century BC, accompanied by a similarly noble pinnacle of super-naturalism in sculpture; that is, a form of art generally received as characteristically ‘pure’, or ‘above nature’. The arrival of...
Victorian Obsession: New Leighton House Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition Infused With Decadence

Victorian Obsession: New Leighton House Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition Infused With Decadence

by News Desk | Nov 19, 2014 | Reviews

A Victorian Obsession, offers a rare opportunity to see paintings by famous as well as lesser known Pre-Raphaelites, in one of their natural habitats: Lord Leighton’s exquisite and opulent former live-in-work space, a mansion which was turned into the Leighton House...
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