Event

Online Lecture: The Grand Tour and 18th-Century British Painting

Event details

Friday, 25 March, 2022

1400-1500

Free of charge (members only)

 

The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum will present an exhibition entitled The Greats – Masterpieces of the National Galleries of Scotland in April. The exhibition features a section on “the grand tour”, which is not a familiar concept to most Japanese. In advance of the exhibition, Professor Yuko Arakawa of Hosei University, a specialist in British art and history, will give us a lecture (in Japanese) on British art in the 18th century, and she will also talk about the grand tour. The Zoom meeting ID and password will be sent to participants in advance.

Yuko Arakawa is a Professor at Hosei University and is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies. She is also a part-time lecturer at Keio University Graduate School. She has a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Tokyo, where she also completed her doctoral course. She specialises in the history of British art, particularly the history of painting in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her publications include Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (2019), J. M. W. Turner: his life and work (2017), and John Everett Millais: a Victorian innovator of the Beautiful (2015).