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Details from Tullio Lombardo, 'A Young Couple (Bacchus and Ariadne)' , 1505–10 © Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Details from Albrecht Dürer, 'Conrad Merckell', 1508 © The Trustees of The British Museum, London

Details from Jan van Eyck, 'Margaret, the Artist’s Wife', 1439. Groeningemuseum, Bruges. KMSKA © Lukas – Art in Flanders VZW

Visiting Information

Opening times:
15 October 2008 - 18 January 2009

10am - 6pm daily
(last admissions 5.15pm)
10am - 9pm Wednesdays
(last admissions 8.15pm)

Closed 1 January and 24-26 December

Location:
Sainsbury Wing

Tickets:
A timed entry system will be in operation.

Campaign to save the Titians
Illustrated Exhibition Talks

Why not complement your visit to Renaissance Faces with an illustrated introductory talk?

 

Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian
15 October 2008 - 18 January 2009
Sainsbury Wing Admission charge

Sponsored by AXA

Lectures, Courses and Workshops

Wednesday 15 October, 6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
Pontormo: An Artist Stripped Bare
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Wednesday 22 October, 6.30-7.30pm
Lecture
'They Really Looked Alive': Italian Responses to Northern Portraiture
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Wednesday 29 October, 6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
Antonis Mor and the Artifice of Portrayal
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Wednesday 5 November, 6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
Beautiful Women: Poetry, Marriage and Sex
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Thursdays 6, 13, 20 November, 2.30–4pm
Course
Identity and Personality: The Renaissance Discovery of Portraiture
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Saturdays 8, 15, 22 November, 11–12.30pm
Course
Identity and Personality: The Renaissance Discovery of Portraiture
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Sunday 9 November, 11.15am - 1pm
Brunch
Renaissance Faces
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Saturday 15 November, 10.30am – 4.30pm
Workshop
Sculpting a Child’s Portrait Head
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Wednesday 19 November, 6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
Likeness and Line: The Portrait Drawing in Renaissance Italy
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Saturday 22 November, 10.30am - 1pm
Study Morning
Renaissance Faces
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Wednesday 26 November, 6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
Children’s Faces
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Saturday 29 November, 10.30am – 4.30pm
Workshop
Sculpting a Portrait Medal
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Wednesday 3 December, 6.30–7.30pm
Lecture
Portraits and Pendants
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10 Wednesday, 6.30–7.30pm
Music
Italian Inspirations – The Splendour of the Renaissance
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Film

Saturday 18 October, 2.30pm
Pygmalion
Asquith and Howard, 1938
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Saturday 25 October, 2.30pm
Elena et les hommes (Elena and Her Men)
Jean Renoir, 1956
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Saturday 1 November, 2.30pm
Early Summer
Yasujiro Ozu, 1951
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Saturday 8 November, 2.30pm
Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night)
Ingmar Bergman, 1955
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Saturday 15 November, 2.30pm
Le Temps retrouvé (Time Regained)
Raul Ruiz, 1999
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Saturday 22 November, 2.30pm
Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock, 1940
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Saturday 29 November, 2.30pm
Gertrud
Carl Dreyer, 1964
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Saturday 6 December, 2.30pm
L’Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad)
Alain Resnais, 1961
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