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Love Stories
ISBN: 9781855147034
(HB - E)
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The National Portrait Gallery's collections hold numerous portraits of creative partnerships. This book looks at the extensive collection of the Gallery and explores the role of love and the people featured both as sitters and artists. Drawing on recent scholarship, the exhibition will explore changing ideas of love, and give readers the opportunity to discover love stories both tragic and transcendent. The stories cover a variety of topicsincluding: the role of the muse,featuring stories such as George Romney, Lady Emma Hamilton and Nelson,and the Bloomsbury group
Louise Stewartisa Curator, 16th Century to Contemporary Collections, at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She is the curator of a number of major projects, including the Gallery's flagship international touring exhibition, Tudors to Windsors.
Edited by Lucy Peltz, Head of Collections Displays (Tudor to Regency) and Senior Curator, 18th Century Collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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