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Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits at the Holburne Museum

Great Pulteney Street, BATH, Avon, BA2 4DB

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Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits

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This is a major exhibition looking at the role of portraiture in the process of marriage in the Renaissance of Northern and Southern Europe. The project was prompted by the long loan to the Holburne of a group of outstanding Northern Renaissance portraits from the Schroder collection.

Marriage portraits not only document the legal union of spouses, capturing that key moment, both intimate and personal as well as public and formal in the sitters’ lives, but can also celebrate the union of families, their wealth, power and land and the forging of political alliances. Prestigious loaned artworks will come from the National Gallery, British Museum, V&A and The Royal Collection, amongst others.

In addition to paintings, the exhibition will include objects associated with the rituals of marriage: love tokens, rings, gifts, and commemorative tableware, as well as written documents and love letters.

 

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