Sleeping Beauty. Victorian painting from the Ponce Museum of Art

Edited by Gabriele Findali

ISBN: 978-84-95241-64-1

Year: 2009

Pages: 64

Illustrations: 36

Binding: in paperback

Size: 23 x 27.5 cm

Published by: Madrid, National Prado Museum and El Viso Editions

The catalogue for the Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite Painting exhibition highlights an international collaboration between the Museo del Prado and the Ponce Museum of Art (Puerto Rico). The Puerto Rican collection, founded by Luis A. Ferré in 1959, is noted for its European painting, particularly 19th-century British art. The exhibition, curated by Gabriele Finaldi, presents a selection of works by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists underrepresented in Spanish public collections. Highlights include works by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, and William Holman Hunt. Also on display is Frederic Leighton's Burning Sun of June. The catalogue includes work profiles by Sally-Anne Huxtable and Alison Smith, and two essays: one on the Ponce collection by Richard Aste and Cheryl Hartup, and another on the Pre-Raphaelites by Heather Birchall.