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A guide to the Summer Exhibition This year’s coordinator Jock McFayden RA talks us through his favourite works and the common themes linking the 2019 selection. Feeling overwhelmed by all the art to see...
Get up close and personal to Leonardo’s drawings Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical drawings demonstrate both his artistic genius and his groundbreaking understanding of human anatomy. Celebrating 500 years since his death, we asked Physician...
Delve deeper into the work of artists, curators, scientists and satirists with the new programme of talks – the perfect way to spend a long summer’s evening. Take a look at the highlights below....
Magnetic, provocative, daring: meet Félix Vallotton Revered in his native Switzerland, the artist Félix Vallotton is relatively unknown in the UK but the legacy of his works can be seen in the paintings of...
In Dosso Dossi’s sensuous painting, Allegory of Fortune, the male figure of Chance holds a bundle of lottery tickets. Lottery tickets were the emblem of Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, who adopted them to...
Created as gifts for friends and lovers, these rarely-seen drawings by Michelangelo bring us closer to the emotional core of his work – the personal and private story you might not see in his...