✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

You have reached the limit of free articles.


To enjoy unlimited access to Culture Whisper sign up for FREE.
Find out more about Culture Whisper

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy

Each week, we send newsletters and communication featuring articles, our latest tickets invitations, and exclusive offers.

Occasional information about discounts, special offers and promotions.


OR
LOG IN

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

Thanks for signing up to Culture Whisper.
Please check your inbox for a confirmation email and click the link to verify your account.



EXPLORE CULTURE WHISPER
✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy
Forgot your username or password?
Don't have an account? Sign Up

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

If you click «Log in with Facebook» and are not a Culture Whisper user, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and to our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Use

Support Us Login
  • Home
  • Going Out
    • Things to do
    • Food & Drink
    • Theatre
    • Visual Arts
    • Cinema
    • Kids
    • Festival
    • Gigs
    • Dance
    • Classical Music
    • Opera
    • Immersive
    • Talks
  • Staying In
    • TV
    • Books
    • Cook
    • Podcast
    • Design
    • Netflix
  • Life & Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Gifting
    • Wellbeing
    • Lifestyle
    • Shopping
    • Jewellery
  • Explore
  • Shopping
  • CW SHOPS
  • Support Us
  • Get Started
  • Tickets
  • CW SHOPS
Get the Best of London Life, Culture and Style
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
Visual Arts

British Baroque: Power and Illusion, Tate Britain

05 Feb 20 – 19 Apr 20, 10am–6pm daily

Tate Britain set to open an exhibition examining the British Baroque in February 2020

By CW Contributor on 3/2/2020

2 CW readers are interested
Antonio Verrio, The Sea Triumph of Charles II (c.1674), The Royal Collection Trust
Antonio Verrio, The Sea Triumph of Charles II (c.1674), The Royal Collection Trust
British Baroque: Power and Illusion, Tate Britain British Baroque: Power and Illusion, Tate Britain Emily Spicer
To limit the spread of Covid-19, certain UK museums have decided to close. Those due to attend an event should contact their ticket provider for more information.




King Charles II is looking very pleased with himself, as well he might. He sits in a clamshell, atop a pile of mythological and allegorical characters, restored to the throne that was taken from his father, a fleet of vessels patrolling the seas behind him. Here, he embodies Britannia, ruling the waves, master of all he surveys. This painting, The Sea Triumph of Charles II, sets the tone for an exhibition coming to Tate Britain in February 2020, which will explore an over-looked era in British art history.


The era in question was one of opulence and illusion, power and pretence, a time known as the Baroque, although a huge amount of variety is contained under this single label. The Baroque aesthetic was tightly bound to competing religious and political forces, all jostling for power, but is associated, first and foremost, with the Counter Reformation. It spanned art, music, architecture and fashion, sweeping Europe up in swathes of velvet and silk.



Peter Lely, Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland with her son, as the Virgin and Child (c.1664.) National Portrait Gallery


For the British it heralded the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, providing the perfect foil to the austerity of the Cromwell years. The exhibition will take this moment as its starting point, and finish with the death of the ill-fated Queen Anne in 1714. This is the age of the diarist Samuel Pepys and architect Christopher Wren, an age of monumental architecture and lavish gardens, an age tightly bound to, but also distinct from the fashions of Europe. This, in short, is a very British Baroque.



What British Baroque: Power and Illusion, Tate Britain
Where Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG | MAP
Nearest tube Pimlico (underground)
When 05 Feb 20 – 19 Apr 20, 10am–6pm daily
Price £tbc
Website Click here for more information



Most popular

Things to do in London this weekend: 12 - 14 August
Things to do in London this weekend: 12 - 14 August
London's loveliest indoor swimming pools
London swimming pools you can visit without membership
London Theatre Guide: best plays on now in London (Photograph: Peter Lewicki)
London Theatre Guide: best plays on now in London, 2022

Editor's Picks

In-the-know art exhibitions online
In-the-know art exhibitions online
Exhibitions to book now: William Blake
Exhibitions to book now
Best art exhibitions, London, 2019
Best art exhibitions, London, 2019
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
2
Postponed

You might like

  • George Stubbs, George IV (1762-1830) when Prince of Wales, 1791   Credit: Royal Collection Trust / (c) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019

    George IV: Art and Spectacle, Queen's Gallery

  • Pablo Picasso, Three Nudes, Gósol, 1906 © 2019. Image co

    Picasso and Paper, Royal Academy review ★★★★★

  • Dora Maar, 1907-1997 Untitled (Fashion photograph) c. 1935 Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper 300 x 200 mm Collection Therond © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019

    Dora Maar exhibition review, Tate Modern ★★★★★

  • Tim Walker 'Karen Elson, Sgaire Wood & James Crewe', London, 2018 (c) Tim Walker Studio

    Review Tim Walker V&A exhibition ★★★★★

  • William Blake, Newton 1795–c.1805. Tate

    William Blake exhibition, Tate Britain review ★★★★★

  • Bridget Riley Cascando, 2015 © Bridget Riley 2019. All rights reserved.

    Bridget Riley exhibition, Hayward Gallery review ★★★★★



  • The Culture Whisper team
  • Support Us
  • Tickets
  • Contact us
  • Press
  • FAQ
  • Privacy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookies
  • Discover
  • Venues
  • Restaurants
  • Stations
  • Boroughs
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
×