NEWS & EVENTS

Past Events

Catch up on passed events from Art History in Focus or London Art Week 2021...

13 July 2021

Women Painters in France: From the Twilight of the Ancien Régime to the July Revolution

In May 2021, the exhibition Peintres Femmes, 1780-1830: naissance d'un combat opened at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. Emanuela Tarizzo will be in conversation with the exhibition's curator, Martine Lacas, and fellow authors of the catalogue, Melissa Hyde and Séverine Sofio, about the achievements of the women who chose a career as painters between the twilight of the Ancien Régime and the dawn of modern France.

12 July 2021

Dispelling the Myth about Works on Paper

A panel discussion moderated by Apollo editor Dr Thomas Marks with Jane McAusland (paper conservator), Matthew Travers (Piano Nobile), Liberte Nuti (Härb Nuti Master Drawings) and Thomas Edwards (Abbott & Holder) will aim to get away from the general belief that Works on Paper are too fragile to be on display all the time.

8 July 2021

The Development of the Maiolica Collection in the Bargello from the Medici to the Present Day

The conversation between Justin Raccanello, Tim Wilson and Alan Darr, moderated by Katherine Zock will convey the influence, importance and pleasure that the Bargello collection affords and the pieces from it that have inspired them.

7 July 2021

In Conversation with Xavier F. Salomon and Aimee Ng

Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon and Curator Aimee Ng discuss the collection's new display, its genesis, how it has allowed them to showcase rarely seen works, and the fresh insights they have gained on the museum's treasures.

6 July 2021

Hylton Nel

Florrie Evans and Patrick Duffy talk to Moira Benigson, who has been collecting works by the South African 'artist-potter' Hylton Nel since meeting him in 1975 and did in fact introduce him to The Fine Art Society.

5 July 2021

DÜRER'S JOURNEYS

An in-depth discussion of the much-heralded National Gallery exhibition, Dürer's Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist (opening soon), with Dr. Imogen Tedbury (The National Gallery), Katrin Bellinger (The Tavolozza Foundation) & Jeremy Howard (University of Buckingham & Colnaghi).

29 March 2021

The Impact of the 20th Century on Women Artists

A conversation between Florrie Evans (Director, Fine Art Society in London) and Jo Baring (Director, Ingram Collection) on the views and barriers surrounding women artists in 20th century Britain.

25 March 2021

Thomas Lawrence: Coming of Age

Andrew Graham-Dixon moderates a talk with LAW dealers Lowell Libson of Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd and Ben Elwes of Ben Elwes Fine Art and Amina Wright, author of a new book on Thomas Lawrence's first twenty-five years, as they discuss the early works of this young prodigy with LAW dealers.

23 March 2021

Medieval Women: Subjects and Makers of Art

Arranged with Sam Fogg in conjunction with their online exhibition, Medieval Women: Subjects and Makers of Art (25 February - 31 March 2021), enjoy a tour of the exhibition in its gallery setting, accompanied by commentary and an in-depth look at select individual works.

16 March 2021

The Female Artists, Actresses, & Playwrights of Strawberry Hill Theatricals

This webinar, introduced and moderated by Emanuela Tarizzo (Gallery Director of Tomasso Brothers Fine Art) will explore the role of female artists, actresses, and playwrights involved with theatre at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill.

London Art Week 2020 Symposium

Raphael at 500: A Missed Celebration?

The opening panel will explore the significance of the anniversary of Raphael's death and of monographic exhibitions on the artist, alongside the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on them, and how the international museum community has responded.

London Art Week 2020 Symposium

Raphael's Design Legacy: The Tapestries

This panel explores the legacy of Raphael's designs, specifically in the realm of tapestries, focusing on the forthcoming reopening of the Raphael Court at the V&A.

London Art Week 2020 Symposium

From Genoa to London: Four Centuries of Collecting Raphael

For this final discussion of the LAW 2020 Symposium, our guests explore the fortune of Raphael and his school in early-modern collections across Europe, focusing not only on the more widely known works on canvas but also on the afterlife of drawings and other media such as tapestry cartoons.

9 December

Avant et après (Before and after) by Paul Gauguin

Join Dr Ketty Gottardo, Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings, The Courtauld and Stephen Ongpin, Director Stephen Ongpin Fine Art in conversation, as they discuss one of Gauguin's most important manuscripts.

8 December

Valour: Arms & Armour in Old Master Portraits

Charles Mackay from The Weiss Gallery in conversation with Dr Tobias Capwell, Curator of Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection.

4 December

The Art Market Now

Pontus Silfverstolpe, one of the founders of Barnebys, discusses the online future of the pre-contemporary art world with Gregor Kleinknecht (Partner, Hunters LAW LLP), Lawrence Hendra (Head of Research, Director, Philip Mould & Company), Matthew Hall (Founding Partner, Panter & Hall) and Katherine Thomas (Client Strategist, Sotheby's, London).

19 November

Peder Balke and the Romantic Movement

In association with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London and the Nordic Institute of Art, Dr Knut introduced his latest book, Peder Balke & The Nordic Romantic Movement, followed by a panel discussion with the National Gallery's curator Christopher Riopelle and London Art Week dealers, specialising in Nordic art, Anthony Crichton-Stuart, Director, Agnews, Marcus Marshall, Director, Daxer & Marschall and William Mitchell, Director, John Mitchell Fine Paintings.

21 October

"So eminently a classic genius": the British sculptor Anne Seymour Damer (1748-1828)

Silvia Davoli (Strawberry Hill House, University of Oxford & Journal of the History of Collections), Elyse Nelson (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), and Emanuela Tarizzo (Tomasso Brothers Fine Art) explore the life and work of British sculptor Anne Seymour Damer.

15 October

Two Celebrated Female Painters: Artemisia Gentileschi & Angelica Kauffman

Moderated by Valentia Vico (Benappi Fine Art), Lucy Chiswell (National Gallery) & Per Rumberg (Royal Academy) discuss two celebrated female painters Artemisia Gentileschi and Angelica Kauffman.

14 October

500 Years of Women Artists

Sacha Llewellyn (Independent Researcher and Curator, and Director, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art), Tania Sutton (Director, Osborne Samuel), Anthony Crichton-Stuart (Director, Agnews), Marco Fabio Apolloni (Director, Laocoon Gallery) and Ellie Smith (Research and Content Editor, Philip Mould & Company), examined our changed perception of women artists and how we are finally championing them.

7 October 2020

How we Look at Art: Frames & Framing

Matthew Reeves, a Director at Sam Fogg, and Peter Schade, Head of the National Gallery's Framing Department, discuss the importance of frames in the presentation of paintings from the late 15th and early 16th centuries...

9 July 2020

The Art World's Latest Merger: The Symbiosis of Private & Public Sales

One of the more successful mergers to be born of 2020 is that of the private and public sides of the trade. Melanie Gerlis of the Financial Times and Art Newspaper, accompanied by a group of globally esteemed panellists, examine this new trend...

8 July 2020

Making Women Artists Visible

It's hard to believe that almost 50 years ago art historian Linda Nochlin asked 'Why have there been no great women artists?' (1971). This panel of women - curators, authors, dealers and art historians - are setting out to make women artists of the 19th and 20th century visible through publications, exhibitions and conversations like this one.

7 July 2020

The 'Life' of a Collection - Managing Today for Tomorrow

Moderated by Thomas Marks, Apollo Magazine and with an introduction from Will Korner of the Art Loss Register, our esteemed panellists discuss the vision and practicalities of how collectors and their advisors form and manage collections through research, exhibitions, publications, education, and other initiatives.

6 July 2020

Collecting Sculpture Throughout the Ages: Princely Kunstkammer, Public Museums and Private Collections

Moderated by Luke Syson, our esteemed panellists will discuss the challenges in collecting three-dimensional art and the inherent rewards of living with sculpture and objects. We consider the type of person who embarks on the collecting journey, the decisions they face before finally discovering the excitement of the three-dimensional world of art.

5 July 2020

Demystifying the Old Masters Market

In an effort to demystify the Old Masters market, ArtTactic and an esteemed panel of market professionals, for the second annual Market Event, discuss modes of authentication and scholarship within the market, the vocabulary used by the trade to establish degrees of authorship, and how this language influences market performance and behaviours.

4 July 2020

The Antique as Principle and Guidance: The Point of View of the Artist

Dr Adriano Aymonino explores why the Antique played such a crucial role in the education of artists from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, especially through the medium of drawing. The lecture is followed by a Q&A with Emanuela Tarizzo of Tomasso Brothers Fine Art.

27 June 2020

Collecting Pre-Contemporary Art Online | New ways to look, learn and buy

In partnership with Masterpiece Online, our panel of experts discussed the challenge of becoming "digital connoisseurs", taking in the latest developments, good and bad, in the shift to online and the big question of whether you should you ever buy a work sight unseen, even now?

17 June 2020

Face to Face

An Van Camp (Ashmolean Museum), Andreas Pampoulides (Lullo Pampoulides), Olivia Ghosh (Christie's) and Matthew Reeves (Sam Fogg) consider together the history of portraiture and its collecting at a moment in time that calls for the renewed scrutiny of that same history...

News

Discover editorials, interviews and articles featuring London Art Week exhibitors and partners...

INTERVIEW

'Our Favourite Works' - Chosen by the team at Hunters LAW LLP

Hunters Law LLP, sponsors of London Art Week 2021, shares its clients' passion for art, so we asked members of the team to select their own favourite works on offer at LAW this summer. These are the results...

Article

LATEST DISCOVERIES

This year, London Art Week is in the fortunate position to have several new discoveries on public view for the first time. A short introduction to the five highlights from the 15th to the 19th Century can be found here.

Article

Women Artists

Since London Art Week introduced Art History in Focus, its new series of talks and articles on the LAW Digital platform, we have looked at many works by great women artists offered for sale by our dealers.

Podcast

The Bigger Picture

Listen to the latest London Art Week episode of the Bigger Picture, in partnership with Arcarta. Get an inside look at the businesses that make the Art World work and the stories behind the people that shape them.

Introduction

Introduction to London Art Week by Ketty Gottardo

Dr Ketty Gottardo, Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery writes an introduction to London Art Week 2021

ARTIST FOCUS

Six Canvases of Birds by Carlo Antonio Raineri

These six canvases are an important testimony to the Genoese period of painter and illustrator Carlo Antonio Raineri, who, along with his son Vittorio, dedicated the entirety of his life's work to the depiction of birds within a floral setting.

Highlight

Sculpture Highlights at London Art Week Summer 2021

Sculpture highlights at London Art Week Summer 2021 span the millennia from ancient Egypt and Rome, through the Renaissance, to the very recent early 21st century.

Article

THE LITERARY EDGE OF LONDON ART WEEK

This summer LAW runs from 2nd to 16th July and several dealers are showing works with a literary theme, in particular works of literary women...

Artist Focus

Lotte Laserstein - the forgotten Realist of the Weimar Republic

Lotte Laserstein was a German-born artist, whose enforced Jewish identity greatly influenced much of her work...

London Art Week 2021

Showcase Exhibition

For this Summer's Digital and Live edition, London Art Week launches a satellite Showcase in partnership with Cromwell Place, the recently-opened exhibition space in South Kensington.

ARTMARKET REPORT

Old Masters Market Report - Summer 2021

ArtTactic is delighted to present this special edition report providing both in-depth analysis of the Old Master Paintings Evening sales as well as insights into the Old Master dealer market. Get 40% off the Old Masters Market Report - Summer 2021 (worth £150) with LAW discount code LAW2021

London Art Week 2021

Exhibitors

For London Art Week 2021 discover some of the world's leading galleries and auction houses...

What's On

Exhibitions

Plan your London Art Week exhibition route and discover over 5,000 works of art from auction houses and galleries across London.

AN ONLINE THEMED EXHIBITION

Revolution & Renewal

Dr. Arturo Galansino, Director General of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence has been invited to curate a special themed exhibition for London Art Week Summer 2021.

Art History in Focus

THE MUSE AS ARTIST/ THE ARTIST AS MUSE

Seen purely as models to male artists, even those that inspired a whole body of work, many of these talented women soon became forgotten. They were not only painters themselves, but also writers, photographers, poets, sculptors, musicians and designers...

Art History in Focus

Clare Atwood - Billingsgate Fish Market

The Fine Art Society is showing this remarkable painting, which had been in a private US collection until it was shown for the first time at the Tate Britain as part of Queer British Art 1861-1967 (5 April - 1 October 2017)...

Art History in Focus

Women Artist in Focus: Gluck

Born Hannah Gluckstein, Gluck grew up in a wealthy Jewish family who owned the Lyons catering empire. At the age of 21 Gluck left home and by 1918, she had begun to call herself Gluck ("no prefix, suffix, or quotes")...

Art History in Focus

E-scape with Us

At a time when escapism is much at the forefront of our minds, artscapes are the perfect way to travel and lose oneself in another place and time. Sit back and relax, dream of past holidays or future adventures. Through landscapes and city-scapes, discover a wonderful variety of works offered by London Art Week dealers...

Art History in Focus

The immortal journey of Dürer

Forget Leonardo: there is a case to be made for the German artist being the true Renaissance great, argues Michael Prodger from Country Life Magazine

Art History in Focus

Become an Instant Expert on the Boy Genius Thomas Lawrence

Born in 1769, by the age of 10, Thomas Lawrence was already showing remarkable artistic ability. Amina Wright, explores the story of the boy that went on to become president of the Royal Academy of Arts...

Art History in Focus

Medieval Women: Subjects & Makers of Art

Although medieval art is dominated by a lack of female voices, a story of exceptions has emerged in 20th-century scholarship, which looked at the Middle Ages through a feminist lens...

Art History in Focus

Travel Essentials of the Past

Next time we are going to travel, there will be a few essentials on our packing list - phone, laptop and probably several other electronic devices. The essential tech for the well-equipped Renaissance and Baroque traveller looked a little different, but was certainly as much at the height of technology at the time than all the devices we are taking with us these days.

Art History in Focus

Prunella Clough (1919 - 1999): Seeing the World Sideways

The subtle and thoughtful work, both mysterious and commonplace, of this leading modern British artist, was admired by critics and avidly collected. Osborne Samuel Gallery holds numerous works by Clough, paintings and prints, which focus primarily on landscapes and industrial subjects...

Art History in Focus

Rosalba Carriera, Pastellist and Portraitist: A Unique Career

Wildly successful and hugely admired in her lifetime, the 18th-century painter Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757) wowed European Royalty her exceptional skill and is credited with inventing the pastel portrait. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art reveals a rare subject for the artist...

Editorial

Works of Devotion

There are numerous outstanding devotional works to be discovered at London Art Week Winter 2020. Some were created for the intimacy of private prayer, others relate to large works intended for places of public worship. We look here at a selection of exceptional smaller pieces made for private devotion that feature the iconography of mother and child...

Editorial

10 Lessons Learned about Buying and Selling Art during a Global Pandemic

The global Covid pandemic, which gripped the world at the beginning of 2020, has, without doubt, had a fundamental impact on the way the art market operates in London and around the world. Here is our selection of 10 things we have learned in the last few months...

Editorial

Art Against Slavery: The Captured Runaway (1856) by William Gale

Depicting an enslaved fugitive and her captor, a north American bounty-hunter, the painting by the white British artist William Gale (1823 - 1909) is a pictorial contribution to the Anti-Slavery emancipation campaign that preceded the US Civil War. At today's distance from the 1850s, it is not an easy picture to understand...

Art History in Focus

The Fairford Park Friendship Album

A group of drawings from a friendship album assembled by Augusta Raymond-Barker (1827-1900) of Fairford Park, Gloucestershire offer a fascinating insight into the lives of a group of Victorian women, all of whom were accomplished watercolourists.

Art History in Focus

Juana Romani - Parisian Artist of Romance, Mystery, Tragedy

Emerging from the darkness is the biblical figure of Hérodiade or Hérodias, who along with her daughter Salomé, orchestrated the death of John the Baptist... Daniel Katz Gallery introduces a beautiful work by French artist Juana Romani (1869-1924) whose life ended in tragic circumstances.

Art History in Focus

Marisa Mori (1900 - 1985): Between Figurative & Futurist Art

Marisa Mori (Florence 1900 - 1985), is a perfect example of the inexplicable oblivion into which supremely talented female artists often would fall...

Art History in Focus

Historical Frames - An Insider's View

London Art Week participant Enrico Ceci specialises in Italian antique frames from the 15th to 18th centuries. With expertise spanning 35 years, here he shares revealing insights in to the very important business of historic Italian frames...

Art History in Focus

Félicie de Fauveau - Feminist and Revolutionary

Félicie de Fauveau, the 19th century sculptor, occupies a space of courage and radicalism that is totally original. Her story goes beyond the history of art, which recounts the story of women in their struggle for expression, against the male order, and of the repression of their demands.

Art History in Focus

Artemisia, The National Gallery

Join Ellice Stevens, the actor who plays Artemisia in the stage production of 'It's True, It's True, It's True', as she journeys through Rome, Florence, Naples and London; retracing Artemisia's footsteps, and coming face-to-face with some of her most important works, for the first time.

Art History in Focus

In Conversation

Amparo Martinez-Russotto, Curator of The Klesch Collection, which includes works by significant historic women artists, talks to Emanuela Tarizzo, London Art Week Board Member and Gallery Director at Tomasso Brothers Fine Art.

Art History in Focus

Lavinia Fontana and Fede Galizia: Two Avant-Garde Women Artists Who Challenged Gender Roles in Their Time

Italian women artists of the 16th and 18th centuries have come out of the shadow in recent years. While they were recognized in their own time and played a major role in the Italian artistic scene, they were almost written out of history, which has given pride of place to their male counterparts...

EVENTS

Art History in Focus

During October 2020 London Art Week will present 'Art History in Focus', a series of themed erudite and enlightening discourses online.

EDITORIAL

The de'Medici Connection at London Art Week Digital

If you were asked to name a European Renaissance family, chances are the first name that springs to mind would be de' Medici - the banking and political dynasty so highly influential around Italy and Europe from the 15th to the 18th century...

EDITORIAL

Rembrandts Self Portrait

Viewing is now open and Sotheby's star lot has just arrived in London - one of the last self-portraits by Rembrandt left in private hands. It is offered as part of Sotheby's cross-category evening sale and carries an estimate of £12-16m.

EDITORIAL

Compelling Jewish paintings on view at London Art Week Digital

Menachem Wecker writes about compelling Jewish paintings on view at London Art Week Digital

INTERVIEW

The Art of Insurance

Franz Ihm of Tectus Insurance and sponsor of London Art Week shares insights into the world of art insurance.

EDITORIAL

Nordic Interest at London Art Week

In a troubled world, it is encouraging to notice that the global interest in Nordic art continues to develop...

EDITORIAL

Celebration of Women Artists

Women were usually restricted to showing their artistic talent in the private sphere; as a result, their names have not become well known, and it is only now that we are starting to reassess the works of these women especially from the 18th and 19th centuries...

Old Masters Market Report

Old Master Paintings Market Report

As an official partner of London Art Week, ArtTactic is delighted to present this special edition report providing both in-depth analysis of the Old Master Paintings Evening sales at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York earlier this year, as well as insights into the Old Master dealer market...

Lecture

Old Masters Lecture

This the first of Artactic's two-part online course on The Old Masters Market. For students or collectors who feel as though the Old Masters are a mystery to them, this course offers a step-by-step guide on the key market characteristics, value drivers, challenges and opportunities...

EDITORIAL

Art as a Vaccine

A message from our sponsors. 'Covid-19 does not appear to be a great respecter of beauty but in a climate where the underfunded culture and arts sector is already under strain, art has risen through to allow us to look forward with a little optimism...'

EDITORIAL

Sitter, Painter, Viewer - the Triangle of Portraiture

Why do we value portraits so highly? And why is portraiture as important as ever? Here we highlight many interesting portraits included in LAW Digital Summer 2020, and our dealers share some discovery stories from their career...

EXHIBITION

The Studiolo and Domestic Spaces

This year, Georg Laue, Kunstkammer Ltd and Stuart Lochhead Sculpture are combining efforts to present a special exhibition The Studiolo: From Renaissance to Modern, while Trinity Fine Art is working with colleagues Walter Padovani and Raccanello Leprince to emulate the setting of art in a domestic space of the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

EDITORIAL

The World of Interiors

London Art Week 2020 goes Virtual. More than 50 galleries are participating, from the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain and the USA, and between them they highlight an extraordinary range of fine art, primarily museum-quality paintings, sculpture and drawings but also encompassing antiquities and the decorative arts.

Acquisition

Milwaukee Art Museum

Ben Elwes Fine Art is delighted to announce the acquisition of Margaret Foley's striking marble relief Portrait of Jenny Lind (1820-1887), c. 1866-69, by Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin.

Video

Watch short clips, interviews and videos...

EXHIBITION

Peintres Femmes 1780 - 1830. Naissance d'un combat

"Women Painters" is a battle against oblivion. Besides the great names in female painting (Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Marguerite Gérard and Constance Mayer), the exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg aims to (re)introduce you to thirty long-forgotten artists. Historians are today working to achieve recognition for their contribution to the history of art.

Welcome to London Art Week

London Art Week Summer 2021

EXHIBITION

Pre-Raphelites: Drawings & Watercolours

Explore this major exhibition at The Ashmolean Museum of the enormous range of techniques and media used by the artists that made up this movement - as well as the intimate and often complex friendships and love affairs between them.

EXHIBITION

The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces

A new exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum. Touch is our first sense. Through touch we make art, stake a claim to what we own and those we love, express our faith, our belief, our anger. Touch is how we leave our mark and find our place in the world; touch is how we connect.

EXHIBITION

Love's Labour's Found: Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraiture

Rich in iconography, interlaced with secret messages and often striking in their opulence, Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture has been researched, investigated and analysed for centuries.

EXHIBITION

Cameos: From Frederick II to Rene of Anjous

In this exhibition, which features the smallest objects that we have ever brought together, two large personalities emerge - Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194-1250) and René of Anjou (1409-1480). Celebrated for their art patronage, the reigns of these two rulers represent the peak of cameo production in the Middle Ages.

VIDEO

Welcome

Stephen Ongpin, Chairman and Alexandra Toscano, Vice-Chair welcome you to the Winter 2020 edition of London Art Week Digital.

Art History in Focus

Pioneers: Vanessa Bell's Self Portrait

Vanessa Bell's Self-Portrait is on display at Philip Mould & Company for their exhibition, Pioneers: 500 Years of Women in British Art. This exhibition will explore and represent 500 years of ground-breaking artists who have been central to the development of British Art. Clasping a handful of paint brushes, Bell presents herself as one such pioneer.

Art History in Focus

Artemisia in London

Join Ellice Stevens, the actor who plays Artemisia in the stage production of 'It's True, It's True, It's True', as she learns about Artemisia's time in London, and how she likely produced one of her most intriguing self-portraits there.

ART

Study of Head: Elegiac Motif

Stefano Grandesso of Carlo Virgilio & C. discusses 'Study of Head: Elegiac Motif' by Cesare Laurenti. Discover more on their exhibitor page.

ART

The Three Graces

Alberto di Castro of Rome shows us this marvellous detached fresco, 'The Three Graces', by the Italian artist and architect Baldassarre Peruzzi.

ART

Maria Verelst

Philip Mould shows us Maria Verelst, one of the most talented female immigrant artists of the late Stuart/early Georgian era and the present work is an important addition to her much-neglected oeuvre.

EXHIBITION

A Male Blue-Throated Barbet

Megan Corcoran of Stephen Ongpin Fine Art shows us this charming watercolour by Jacques Baraband, from their exhibition 'Drawn to Nature: Flora and Fauna from the 16th Century to the Present Day.'

ART

Kehinde Wiley meets Jacques-Louis David at the Château de Malmaison

Kehinde Wiley explains to curators Emmanuel Delbouis and Elodie Vaysse how he looks at the history of image-making and how he has put this into an African-American contemporary context.

EXHIBITION

An Invitation to A Grand Tour of Europe: Master Paintings 1600 -1900

William Thuillier invites you to discover his London Art Week Digital exhibition, A Grand Tour of Europe: Master Paintings 1600 -1900.

ART

Morra Players BY Pietro Ricchi

Learn more from LAW exhibitor, Galerie Canesso, about the beautiful Caravaggesque painting, The Mora Players by Pietro Ricchi.

ART

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

LAW Digital exhibitor, Stuart Lochhead of Stuart Lochhead Sculpture uncovers the fantastic 19th century bust by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, the father of modern sculpture.

EXHIBITION

Object of the Week

This week Matthew Reeves, from Sam Fogg shines a light on one of the highlights of their upcoming London Art Week exhibition Medieval Faces, a sandstone carving of the life-size head of Saint John the Baptist, which legend states was presented to Salome on a platter as a reward for having enchanted King Herod with her dancing.

FROM OUR PARTNERS

Young Rembrandt at the Ashmolean

The Ashmolean's 2020 Young Rembrandt exhibition is currently closed, but you can still visit virtually. Watch this introduction from exhibition curator An Van Camp, and explore the exhibition section by section at ashmolean.org

ART

Zaga Christ - the lost Ethiopian Prince by Giovanna Garzoni

The lost identity of an Ethiopian Prince is uncovered by Portrait Miniatures Specialist, Emma Rutherford of Philip Mould & Company. Watch to find out more about this miniature, painted in the 16th-century by Turin court artist, Giovanna Garzoni.

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