Members' livestream tour and Q&A
About
Most paintings from the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance were intended for worship, yet few remain in their original chapels and churches.
A series of panels by the Sienese artist Duccio, once part of a large altarpiece, now sit in separate frames. Whilst Piero della Francesca’s ‘The Baptism of Christ’ used to reside in a Tuscan church, it now hangs on the National Gallery’s walls. How do we view and interpret these sacred artworks in the museum and gallery spaces in which they are now displayed?
Art historian Siân Walters contemplates how we interpret such religious paintings in the National Gallery’s ground floor galleries, currently home to our earliest artworks. Visit, or revisit, this sacred art in a livestream tour from the Gallery.
There will be an opportunity for questions at the end of the event.
Speaker
Siân Walters is an art historian and the director of Art History in Focus. She studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge University and has been a lecturer at the National Gallery for over 20 years. Her specialist areas of research are Italian painting, Spanish art and architecture, Flemish and Dutch painting and the relationship between dance and art. Siân also lectures for The Wallace Collection and The Arts Society and leads specialist art tours abroad. She was a lecturer at Surrey University for many years and has lived and worked in France and Venice.
Sacred Art, Revisited
Members' livestream tour and Q&A
Tickets
Members: £10
This is an online event, exclusive to Members, hosted on Zoom.
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