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Tag: Renaissance

Artemisia at the National Gallery, London

1st November 20201st November 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition celebrates the professional ingenuity, self-confidence and skilful proto-feminist paintings of one of Italy’s best Early Modern women artists, Artemisia Gentileschi.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Alexandra Lapierre, Art History, Artemisia, Artemisia Gentileschi, Baroque, exhibition, Italian Baroque Art, Italian painting, Letizia Treves, Mary Garrard, National Gallery, Nina Houle, painting, Renaissance, Simon Vouet, Sistine Chapel

Albrecht Dürer at the Albertina Museum, Vienna

22nd December 201922nd December 2019  Anna Parker

The Albertina’s current exhibition of Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer includes much of his celebrated work, but its the sketches and watercolours found in his personal archives that impress the most, writes Anna Parker.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Albertina Museum, Albrecht Dürer, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, gothic, Netherlands, Renaissance, Vienna

Breach Theatre’s ‘It’s True, It’s True, It’s True’ at the Cambridge Junction

20th October 201920th October 2019  Carla Plieth

Breach Theatre present their award-winning play, It’s True, It’s True, It’s True, about the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, her poignant paintings and the sexual assault trial that shook Renaissance Rome.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Artemisia Gentileschi, Breach Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridge Junction, Ellie Stevens, It's True It's True It's True, Kathryn Bond, Renaissance, Sophie Steer

Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard & Oliver at the National Portrait Gallery

18th April 201918th April 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

Our arts contributor, Miriam al Jamil, marvels at the mastery and beauty of Elizabethan miniatures at the National Portrait Gallery.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Isaac Oliver, Jewellery, Jewels, Miniatures, National Portrait Gallery, Nicholas Hilliard, Renaissance, Sixteenth Century

Review of Mantegna and Bellini at the National Gallery, London

30th December 201830th December 2018  Jessica Lim

Jessica Lim delights in seeing the work of sibling artists, Mantegna and Bellini, in the National Gallery’s latest exhibition.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Andrea Mantegna, art, Bellini, Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna, painting, Renaissance, The Bible
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