Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Robert Vernon
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-charles-lock-eastlake-166" aria-label="More by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Charles Lock Eastlake</a>
Escape Francesco Novello di Carrara with his Wife Duke Milan
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
adults
animals: mammals
boy
children
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
d’Este, Taddea
Di Carrara, Franceco Novello
donkey
history
Italy
landscape
man
mist
mountain
named individuals
Padua, Duke of
people
period: Renaissance
places
politics and society
riding
society
transport: land
Ventimiglia
weather
woman
<p>Part of the cultural background to Romanticism was an explosion of historical writing. The medieval period was especially popular. Eastlake took this subject from a history of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages by Simonde de Sismondi. A liberal Swiss Protestant, Sismondi showed how Italy had been damaged by the transfer of power from local communities to tyrants like the Medici. Here, in an episode of 1389, the last lord of Padua flees the Duke of Milan. Contemporary Italians were being driven into exile for liberal sympathies and attempts to unify the country.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
25 July 2005 – 26 July 2009
2009-07-26
25 July 2005
2005-07-25
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-07-25
Romantic Painting in Britain
Collection based display
29 July 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
6 August 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
2010-08-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-07-29
Romantics 2
Collection based display
2 September 2011 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2 September 2011 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2011-09-02
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2011-09-02
Romantics
Collection based display
7 August 2014 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
7 August 2014
2014-08-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-08-07
Gallery 9
Collection based display
The Escape of Francesco Novello di Carrara, with his Wife, from the Duke of Milan
support: 1270 × 1016 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
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<p>Part of the cultural background to Romanticism was an explosion of historical writing. The medieval period was especially popular. Eastlake took this subject from a history of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages by Simonde de Sismondi. A liberal Swiss Protestant, Sismondi showed how Italy had been damaged by the transfer of power from local communities to tyrants like the Medici. Here, in an episode of 1389, the last lord of Padua flees the Duke of Milan. Contemporary Italians were being driven into exile for liberal sympathies and attempts to unify the country.</p>
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adults animals: mammals boy children cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents d’Este, Taddea Di Carrara, Franceco Novello donkey history Italy landscape man mist mountain named individuals Padua, Duke of people period: Renaissance places politics and society riding society transport: land Ventimiglia weather woman