2 hours
Manchester Art Gallery
Starting at GBP 12
Tue, 04 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm (GMT+00:00)
Manchester Art Gallery
Mosley Street, Manchester, United Kingdom
The Pre-Raphaelite Movement: quaint but inconsequential Victoriana - or the very Spirit of Contemporary Art?
A Tour of Manchester Art Gallery’s Remarkable Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
Pre-Raphaelite paintings have a way of striking you, even from a distance. They are often bejewelled with luminous colour, redolent of some beautiful dream world and indeed, many evoke the same sense of a lost past that can be found in poetry. The human figures seem almost too real, whilst the trees, grasses, leaves and flowers appear possessed of a vibrant living force.
Manchester Art Gallery has some of the very finest examples but of course, like much else in the art world, they tend to divide opinion. Gallery visitors come from far and wide to see them but there are also detractors who find the works overly sentimental.
Join volunteer guide John Ward in a quest to determine whether or not these world famous masterpieces speak as powerfully to us as they once did to our forebears.
John Ward - Manchester Art Gallery Volunteer
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Tickets for Tour of Manchester Art Gallery’s Remarkable Collection can be booked here.
Ticket type | Ticket price |
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General Admission | 12 GBP |