Gallery Talks

Talks are given by education division lecturers and National Gallery of Art staff. Unless otherwise noted, talks begin either in the Rotunda of the West Building (wb) or at the ground floor art information desk in the East Building (eb).

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.
Sales Information: (202) 842-6466
Mail Order: (301) 322-5900


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