Ashmolean Museum - Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design

Exhibition dates: 21 September 2023 - 18 February 2024
Offer valid up to 23 December 2023.

Explore a dazzling version of the Victorian world in Colour Revolution, the latest exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum.

Featuring a spectacular array of artworks (including Millais’ Mariana and Hughes’ April Love), costume (from Queen Victoria’s monochrome mourning dress to dazzling stockings, boots and dresses) and design, rediscover Victorian society as a vibrant colour-filled era.

Dispelling the myth that the era was a dreary landscape of ‘dark satanic mills’ and cities choked with smog, this new major exhibition shows how new scientific breakthroughs resulted in an explosion of colour that was embraced by artists, designers and regular people of the 19th century.

With over 140 objects from international collections ranging from Ruskin’s exquisite studies, Turner and Whistler’s experiments with colour harmony, and Morris & Co.’s elaborate designs, to fashion, jewellery and homeware that enlivened the streets and homes of Victorian Britain and Europe, Colour Revolution is a joyous and surprising tour through a period of history often misunderstood as bleak.

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