Tuesday, 6th March, 2012 at 2.30pm

The Pre-Raphaelite collections in the V&A are one of the museum’s best-kept secrets. The paintings, drawings, tapestries, tiles, and even pianos are scattered around the galleries, making it hard to get an overview of the movement. But, as this lecture shows, the decorative arts were essential in developing the distinctive style of these revolutionary Victorians. Rossetti, Millais, Burne-Jones and their colleagues moved easily from one medium to the next, creating objects – like illustrated books and stained glass - that reached a far wider audience than their easel paintings.

With a first in History at Oxford and having a further degree in Art History, Dr Fagence-Cooper is a lecturer and broadcaster. Her special interest is in Pre-Raphaelite art and the women associated with the movement, about which she has written several books, including, most recently,
The Model Wife: Effie, Ruskin and Millais (2010).