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Redisplaying the Renaissances | Curators' hour

Online Members' talk and Q&A

Talks and conversations | Talk
Date
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Time
1 - 2 pm BST
Location
Online
Audience
For Members

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Members: £10

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The National Gallery is home to one of the best collections of Renaissance painting in the world. Now you have the chance to explore this period of extraordinary creativity with a fresh perspective.

In this online Members’ talk, curators Laura Llewellyn and Emma Capron take you behind the scenes of our recent redisplay, ‘C C Land: The Wonder of Art.’ They will reveal how they conceived the historic rehang of the Sainsbury Wing, establishing a new, dynamic dialogue between the Italian and Northern paintings in the collection, from Jan van Eyck and Albrecht Dürer to Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Join Laura and Emma for their insights into this once-in-a-generation redisplay of the National Gallery’s Renaissance collection and ask your own questions at the end of this event.

Speakers

Dr Emma Capron is Curator of Early Netherlandish and German Paintings at the National Gallery, London, where she curated ‘The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance’ (2023), and ‘Discover: Manet and Eva Gonzalès’ (2022-23). Previously, Emma has held fellowships at Musée du Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Frick Collection, where she curated ‘The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos’ (2018-19). A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, she received her MA and PhD in Art History from the Courtauld Institute in London.
Laura Llewellyn is Curator of Italian Paintings before 1500 at the National Gallery, London, where she was previously Associate Curator of Renaissance Paintings (2020‒23). Prior to this she was Assistant Curator in the Department of Paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (2016‒20). At the Getty, she curated the exhibitions 'Ercole de’ Roberti in Focus' (2019) and 'Paolo Veneziano: Art and Devotion in 14th-century Venice' (2021), organised in partnership with The Frick Collection. She received her PhD from the Courtauld in 2017. At the National Gallery she curated the exhibition 'Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed' (December 2023 ‒ March 2024).

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