Last summer, 100 objects of the British Museum debuted at the Shanghai Museum, breaking a number of records in the Shanghai Museum’s history. This year, another exhibition from the U.K. is coming to town, ready to amaze visitors.

(“Landscapes of the Mind: Masterpieces from Tate Britain (1700-1980)” features a collection of paintings enshrined at Tate Britain. [Photo/Eastday.com])

Titled “Landscapes of the Mind: Masterpieces from Tate Britain (1700-1980),” the exhibition features a collection of paintings enshrined at Tate Britain. A total of 71 pieces of artwork will be on show in an area of 800 square meters, recounting 300 years of British landscape art.

(A staff member at work in preparation of the upcoming exhibition [Photo/Eastday.com])

(A masterpiece of Thomas Gainsborough: “The Rev. John Chafy Playing the Violoncello in a Landscape” [Photo/Eastday.com])

According to Li Zhongmou, deputy director of the Shanghai Museum, the exhibition focuses on a chronological history of the development of British landscape art and is divided into five parts: reality and dreams, classicism and romanticism, naturalism and impressionism, early modern landscape art, and late modern landscape art. To appeal to a wider audience, amongst the exhibits are paintings from prominent artists including Thomas Gainsborough, J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, but Li Zhongmou hopes that visitors can pay attention to other works of art to be displayed here, so that they can have an overall picture of British painting.

The exhibition will run from April 27 through August 5.