# Event Details - **Event Name**: Manchester & the Pre-Raphaelites - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 02:30 pm – Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm - **Event Description**: Discover the treasures of Victorian England's greatest paintings with Arts Society lecturer & Manchester's leading tour guide, Ed Glinert.About this EventThe Pre-Raphaelites in Manchester. Expert tour.Tuesday 31 March 2026.2.30 start outside Manchester Art Gallery.Ed Glinert, official Manchester tour guide and author of Manchester: The Biography, the new definitive history of the city, leads this fascinating, fact-filled tour around the gallery’s best-loved Victorian paintings.***The Pre-Raphaelites were Britain’s most important art school. They were aesthetes and zealots determined to bring honesty, drama and colourful vitality to staid Victorian painting.They were formed in 1848, the year of revolution across Europe. But this was no political coup. This was art terrorism, powered by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.Reacting against the reactionary nature of Joshua Reynolds and the Royal Academy, the Pre-Raphaelites wished to create a body of work similar in brightness of colour, attention to detail, and honest simplicity to the period of Italian painting prior to Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520).Rossetti wanted the group’s name to include the then fashionable term “Early Christian”, but when Hunt objected he proposed “Pre-Raphaelite”. Rossetti then added the word “Brotherhood”, as he wanted the society to be secret, in line with the Italian political group the Carbonaris in that year of revolution across Europe. When the artists staged their first exhibition Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Girlhood of Mary Virgin was signed “PRB” to maintain the society’s air of mystery.Manchester has an unrivalled collection of the PRB’s works, dominated by the monumental Work by Ford Madox Brown, the group's mentor; William Holman Hunt’s spiritual Light of the World; his daring Shadow of Death and the eerie Scapegoat. This is art which benefits from intense scrutiny; from unravelling and demystifying the religious connotations and human dramas involved. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/b7f88510-1958-11f1-bc88-dd98c03efcf8-rimg-w593-h740-dc5f4530-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/manchester/manchester-and-the-pre-raphaelites/100001984129272064 - **Event Categories**: Art, fine-arts, Entertainment, Theatre, performances, Exhibitions, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Manchester - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Manchester Art Gallery - **lat**: 53.4786943 - **long**: -2.2413604 - **full address**: Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Manchester & the Pre-Raphaelites - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/e0363e9091751ee917b5ea7ac3b92de80a68f2463a42f02eb85e775dcd586442-rimg-w1200-h816-dcddbd75-gmir.jpg?v=1772800438 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Manchester & the Pre-Raphaelites being held? - **A:** Manchester & the Pre-Raphaelites takes place on Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 02:30 pm to Tue, 31 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Manchester & the Pre-Raphaelites? - **A:** Manchester & the Pre-Raphaelites is organized by New Manchester Walks. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Manchester & the Pre-Raphaelites is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Manchester, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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