Framing the Past: Five Centuries of European Painting
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Exhibition Details
Framing the past celebrates European art from the 13th century to approximately 1700, in what is a series of conversations between particular periods, styles and genres. These include religious paintings, landscape, portraits and scenes of everyday life.
Styles of painting may change across time yet the human need to reflect on the world in which one lives remains a constant. Rather than being trapped in time or place, an ongoing discussion on the meanings and relevance of particular works of art remains fluid, being renewed and revitalised through each viewer's eye, understanding, and experience. So while we would need to refer to history texts to discover what these works meant to viewers at the time of their production, we are free to closely observe each work and find our own meanings within it.
- Date
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- Curated by
- Mary Kisler
- Location
- Main Gallery
- Cost
- Free entry
Related Artworks
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Saint John the Baptist
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Bacchanals I
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Bacchanals II
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A Village fair (Village festival in honour of Saint Hubert and Saint Anthony)
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Saint Protase
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Saint Gervase
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Jupiter and Antiope
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Borghese Gladiator
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Pietra Dura Table with Parakeet and Other Birds, Trees, Flowers and Butterfly
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Landscape Showing Haarlem Church
Unknown artist Jacob van Ruisdael
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Saint Sebastian
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Portrait of Sarah Siddons
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Miss Windham
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Master James Hay
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Portrait of a Man
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Portrait of Fifth Viscount Allen, named Joshua (1728-1816) in the Uniform of a L...
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The Wreck of a transport ship
James Pyne Joseph Mallord William Turner
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A Gathering of Birds
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The Scorning of Christ (Christ Mocked)
Giuseppe Crespi Anthony van Dyck
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View of the left side of the Grand Harbour, taken from Valletta, from Fort Ricas...
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Allegorical Statue of the River Tiber with the She-Wolf Suckling the Infants Rom...
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L'allee des fontaines. Elle va de gauche a droite et conduit a la villa, ...
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The grand staircase, in front of the villa, flanked by obelisks. Le grand perron...
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Hercules and Putto
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