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Out of Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts

Out of Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts

Illuminators of the 1400s and 1500s used many of the marginal motifs known from earlier manuscripts. They differed, however, by integrating marginalia into elaborate borders strewn with naturalistic foliage and abstract patterns...
Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese

Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese

"These three painters were to rub shoulders for over thirty years, and after Titian’s death in 1576, the other two would continue their mutual confrontation for another dozen years. Though rivals, they also influenced and inspired one another."
Arts of the Ming Dynasty: China’s Age of Brilliance

Arts of the Ming Dynasty: China’s Age of Brilliance

"The early Ming era was a period of cultural restoration and expansion. Seeking to reassert native artistic traditions, court artists revived and adapted the figural and landscape themes and styles of the Song dynasty..."
Up the holy mountain

Up the holy mountain

"A staggering 20-25,000 pilgrims still climb Croagh Patrick mountain – a soaring cone-shaped 765m (2,500ft) peak..."
American Impressionism & Realism

American Impressionism & Realism

"This groundbreaking presentation features works by 34 painters, renowned and less well-known. Some of the leading figures — such as Impressionists John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and William Merritt Chase, and Realists John Sloan and William Glackens — are represented by several of their works."
Pablo Picasso's Château de Vauvenargues

Pablo Picasso's Château de Vauvenargues

The Spanish artist bought Château de Vauvenargues in 1958 after he discovered it in the foothills of Mont Sainte-Victoire, the mountain...
In Dreams, Ideas and Passion

In Dreams, Ideas and Passion

In the fin de siecle of the 19th century, letter writing mirrored the devotion to nature, music and art. It is a joy to read again Van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo –“...we explored the old garden and stole excellent figs, it made me think of Zola's vines, ivy, fig trees, olive trees, pomegranates...
Travelling Light: Turner and Italy

Travelling Light: Turner and Italy

"Woven through this is the tale of a young man on the make, the son of a Covent Garden barber, who made his mark and his fortune whilst never having the right..."
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

"Caillebotte painted scenes of outdoor life away from the city on the coast of Normandy and in the villages of Yerres and Petit Gennevilliers..."
Watteau, Music, and Theater

Watteau, Music, and Theater

The exhibition will explore the place of music and theater in the work of the great early eighteenth-century French painter and draftsman Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), comparing an imagery of power, associated with the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, with a more optimistic and mildly subversive imagery of pleasure...
Cezanne and American Modernism

Cezanne and American Modernism

Cézanne’s greatness lies more in an intensely individual way of seeing nature than as an expresser of abstract artistic concepts. In other terms, he falls in with the class headed by such men as Giotto and Rembrandt, who merged their aesthetic qualities inextricably with their particular viewing of the world...
Sargent and the Sea

Sargent and the Sea

"In Sargent and the Sea, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together for the first time more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings depicting seascapes and coastal scenes..."
A preview of Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler

A preview of Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler

Moctezuma inherited one of the world's richest visual traditions. All the styles of art in this show have origins going back 3,000 years to the age of the Olmecs.
A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today

A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today

"A major European expedition to acquire classical antiquities for the fledgling collection in 1889 resulted in the purchase of several pots originally used for serving and storing wine."
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction

Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction

"In 1915, O'Keeffe leaped into abstraction with a group of charcoal drawings that were among the most radical creations produced in the United States at that time. In these and subsequent abstractions, O’Keeffe sought to transcribe her..."
Turn-of-the-Century Gems

Turn-of-the-Century Gems

"Scandinavian painting from the period around the last turn-of-the-century is richly represented in Nationalmuseum’s collections. It is also very much appreciated by the audience. Due to the lack of space the number of paintings on display..."
Music Review | Benvenuto Cellini

Music Review | Benvenuto Cellini

Sir Colin Davis’ original and lively interpretaion of this technically demanding masterpiece by the French composer Hector Berlioz is exhilarating. The opera is set in Rome during the celebration of...
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

"The theme of light and enlightenment is emphasized throughout, both literally and in its figurative or spiritual sense. Highlights include an extraordinary Egyptian gilded and enameled glass lamp inscribed with the famous 'Light Verse'..."