Désirs & volupté à l'époque victorienne: La collection Pérez Simón.

by Véronique Gerard-Powell (Editor), Laurent Germeau, Jérôme Duquène

Catalogue of the exhibition of 50 exceptional paintings by many of the leading artists of the Victorian period within the extraordinary interiors of Leighton House Museum. The pictures all belong to the Mexican collector Juan Antonio Pérez Simón and form the largest private collection of Victorian art outside the UK. Alma Tadema, Godward, Waterhouse and Leighton himself are just some of the names represented in this lavish volume.

Genres: Art

244 pages, Hardcover

First published October 2, 2013

Reviews

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really beautifully produced full colour catalogue to accompany the exhibition.

Contains text on both artists and artworks concerned, including Leighton himself.

[Servabo · Rating 3 out of 5]

British art in the 19th century is characterized by the diverse array of artists, schools and genres that developed in parallel with the profound political, social and cultural changes witness by British society during this period.

The Roses of Heliogabalus is an 1888 painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It shows a group of Roman diners at a banquet, being swamped by drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling above. The youthful Roman emperor Elagabalus, wearing a golden silk robe and tiara, watches the spectacle from a platform behind them with other garlanded guests. A woman plays the double pipes beside a marble pillar in the background, wearing the leopard skin of a maenad, with a bronze statue of Dionysus, based on the Ludovisi Dionysus, in front of a view of distant hills.