Talks

Discover great art on your lunch break or Friday evenings

August 2018

10-minute talk
August 10–minute talks

Mondays – Fridays, 4–4.10pm

Detail from Canaletto, ‘Venice: The Doge's Palace and the Riva degli Schiavoni’, late 1730s
Lunchtime talk
Canaletto's The Doge's Palace and the Riva degli Schiavoni
Landscapes: Copying and capturing nature

Wednesday 15 August, 1–1.30pm

Room 38
Detail from John Constable, The Cornfield, 1826
Lunchtime talk
Constable's The Cornfield
Landscapes: Copying and capturing nature

Monday 20 August, 1–1.30pm

Room 34
Detail from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, The Four Times of Day: Noon, about 1858
Lunchtime talk
Corot's The Four Times of Day: Noon
Landscapes: Copying and capturing nature

Wednesday 22 August, 1–1.30pm

Room 46
Detail from Laurits Andersen, Ring Road in the Village of Baldersbronde (Winter Day), 1854 - 1933
Lunchtime talk
Ring's Winter Day
Landscapes: Copying and capturing nature

Wednesday 29 August, 1–1.30pm

Room 41

September 2018

Lunchtime talk
Roderic O'Conor: Gauguin's Irish friend

Monday 3 September, 1–1.45pm

Sainsbury Wing Theatre
10-minute talk
September 10–minute talks

Mondays – Fridays, 4–4.10pm

Discussion
Picture of the month club: De Zurbarán's Still Life with Lemons in a Wicker Basket

Tuesday 4 September, 12.45–1.45pm

Sainsbury Wing Conference Room 2
Sebastiano del Piombo, incorporating designs by Michelangelo, ‘The Raising of Lazarus’, 1517-19
Lunchtime talk
A history of the National Gallery in six paintings: Sebastiano's Raising of Lazarus

Wednesday 5 September, 1–1.30pm

Room 8
Lunchtime talk
The origins of the Altarpiece of the Virgin Mary

Monday 10 September, 1–1.45pm

Sainsbury Wing Theatre
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