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| Until 15 June 2014 |
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★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★★ Metro ★★★★★ The Times
Don’t miss your chance to experience the colourful, dramatic and spectacular art of Paolo Veronese – one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance – in this acclaimed exhibition. |
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| OPENING THIS MONTH |
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| Making Colour |
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| 18 June – 17 September 2014 |
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| From lapis lazuli to cobalt blue, to dazzling gold and silver – travel through the story of colour with the National Gallery. |
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| EXHIBITION |
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| Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting |
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| Until 21 September 2014 | Admission free |
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| Works by artists including Duccio, Botticelli and Crivelli offer fascinating insights into the real and fantastical architecture of the Renaissance. |
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Take One Picture – Discover, Imagine, Explore:
Children inspired by Georges Seurat |
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| Until 21 September 2014 | Admission free |
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| Each year, the National Gallery invites primary schools to take inspiration from one picture in the collection and use it as a stimulus for learning across the curriculum. Works on show include animation, prints, poetry and textiles. |
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| DISPLAY |
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| Artistic Exchanges: Corot, Costa, Leighton |
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| Until 3 September 2014 | Admission free |
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| Discover how encounters in cosmopolitan Rome shaped European artists' approaches to nature. |
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| SUPPORT US |
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| Your donation makes a difference |
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Every year, around a third of the Gallery’s income comes from private gifts. However large or small, your donation makes a difference!
Help us to ensure that the great masters continue to inspire, challenge and thrill by making a donation today. |
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| PAINTING OF THE MONTH |
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| Giovanni di Paolo: ‘The Birth of Saint John the Baptist: Predella Panel’ |
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| John the Baptist's birth, on 24 June, was a miraculous event given that his mother, Saint Elizabeth, was well past childbearing age. |
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| Guided tours of Longford Castle |
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Selected dates in 2014
Longford Castle, near Salisbury, Wiltshire |
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The Longford Castle collection includes paintings by van Dyck, Claude, Teniers, Hals, Reynolds and Gainsborough, as well as oriental porcelain, Brussels tapestries and exceptional 18th-century English and continental furniture.
Tickets are now available for tours in July and September 2014.
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| The BP exhibition Vikings: life and legend at the British Museum |
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| FINAL WEEKS – Until 22 June 2014 |
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Discover the Viking world in this major exhibition – the first at the British Museum for over 30 years.
Swords and axes, coins and jewellery, hoards, amulets and religious images show how Vikings created an international network connecting cultures over four continents. Supported by BP. |
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