What's On at The National Gallery
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FINAL WEEKSTurner Inspired: In the Light of Claude
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‘Brilliant! One of the best exhibitions of the year so far!’ ‘it was absolutely incredible. One of the best shows I've been to for a while! Thanks for putting it on. :)' ‘I would recommend so highly the Turner/Claude...I'm going to go again I loved it that much.’ - Followers of @NationalGallery on Twitter
Don’t miss your chance to explore how Turner grappled with Claude’s mastery of light and atmosphere to create a revolution in landscape painting. Find out more and book tickets » |
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Titian’s First Masterpiece: The Flight into Egypt | | Take One Picture: Primary School Children Inspired by Veronese |
Until 19 August 2012, Admission free | | 9 May – 16 September 2012, Admission free |
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Detail from Titian, 'The Flight into Egypt', about 1506-7. The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Photograph © The State Hermitage Museum / Natalia Antonova, Inessa Regentova | | Detail from Paolo Veronese, ‘The Family of Darius before Alexander’, 1565–7 © The National Gallery, London |
Discover this early work by Titian, not seen outside Russia since 1768.
Find out which artists influenced him and see elements of his style in development.
Buy book | | Discover how one National Gallery painting can take you on many imaginative journeys...and can enrich the education of schoolchildren across the UK. |
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ONLINE | | LAST CHANCE TO SEE |
New National Gallery Channel | | Inside Art: Creative Responses to the Collection by Young Offenders |
| | Until 20 May 2012, Admission free |
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| | Artwork by an ‘Inside Art’ participant © The National Gallery, London |
Delve into this new dedicated space for film and audio on the website. Watch the latest film about our recent groundbreaking Leonardo exhibition.
Get beneath the brushstrokes, be inspired – and tell us what you think! | | This display features work made by participants in art projects at HMYOI Feltham, a juvenile prison and young offenders institution.
Works on display include portrait sculpture, drawing, printmaking and painting. |
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EXHIBITION | | TOURING EXHIBITION |
Titian’s 'Diana and Callisto' | | Titian’s ‘Diana and Actaeon’ |
Until 1 July 2012, Admission free | | Cardiff, 19 May to 17 June |
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Detail from Titian, 'Diana and Callisto', 1556–9. © Photo National Galleries of Scotland | | Detail from Titian, ‘Diana and Actaeon’, 1556–9 © The National Gallery, London |
See this newly acquired Titian masterpiece which depicts the tragic story of the nymph Callisto from the Roman poet Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’. |
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