Gallery talks are divided into two categories:
Focus: The Permanent Collection includes traditional theme-based tours of objects in the National Gallery of Art's collections.
Special Exhibitions discusses works of art on view in temporary exhibitions.
Focus: The Permanent
Collection
Andrea del Verrocchio's "Lorenzo de' Medici": Portrait Busts in the Renaissance (40 minutes). Erik Neil, graduate lecturing fellow. March 3, 17, and 18 at 2:00 (wb)
British Eighteenth-Century Portraits (60 minutes). Philip Leonard,
lecturer. March 9 and 10 at 1:00, March 12 and 14 at 2:00, and March 16 at noon (wb)
Painting New York: Images of the City by George Bellows (40 minutes). Jack Becker, graduate lecturing fellow. March 10, 11, and 24 at 2:00 (wb)
"The Age of Bronze" by Auguste Rodin (Gift of Mrs. John Simpson) (30 minutes). Wilford W. Scott, lecturer. March 30 and 31 at 1:00 (wb)
Special Exhibitions
Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi, Sangallo, Michel-angelo - The Cathedrals of Florence and Pavia, and St. Peter's, Rome (60 minutes). J. Russell Sale or Frances Feldman, lecturers. March 2 and 3 at 1:00, March 5, 7, and 25 at 2:00, and March 9, 21, 26, 29, and 31 at noon (wb)
Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources (50 minutes). J. Russell Sale, lecturer. March 4, 5, 7, and 10 at noon (eb)
The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century (60 minutes). Philip Leonard, lecturer. March 8, 11, 12, 15, and 17 at noon (wb)
Toulouse-Lautrec: Marcelle Lender in "Chilpéric" (30 minutes). Frances Feldman, lecturer. March 23 and 24 at 1:00, March 26 and 28 at 2:00, and March 30 at noon (eb)
Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology
(50 minutes). Wilford W. Scott, lecturer. March 28 at noon (eb)
Publications
Exhibition Catalogues
Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology
$42.00 (softbound)
The Glory of Venice: Art in the
Eighteenth Century
$55.00 (hardbound)
$39.95 (softbound)
The Renaissance from
Brunelleschi to Michelangelo:
The Representation of Architecture
$85.00 (hardbound)
$60.00 (softbound)
Available from the National Gallery of Art's publications service.
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