Suggestions for Gallery Visits
THE LARGEST VERMEER EXHIBITION EVER Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – 10th February to 4th June 2023
NOTE: In local cinemas in April
As some Arts Society Members may be aware, this unique exhibition will bring together nearly all known paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), lent by museums from all over the world. Members who are not planning to see the exhibition in Amsterdam may be interested to know that, as part of the excellent Exhibition-on-Screen series, a one-hour-thirty-minute documentary about the Vermeer exhibition will be shown in the following cinemas in April 2023:The Malt Cinema, Lymington: Tuesday 18th April at 7.15 pmHarbour Lights Cinema, Southampton: Tuesday 18th April at 7.15 pmMilford Centre Cinema: Thursday 20th April evening (time tba)The Regent Centre Cinema Christchurch Sunday 23rd April at 2.15 pm
The exhibition Labyrinth – Knossos, Myth and Reality is opening on 10th February at the Ashmolean.
If you scroll down the web page there are images of some of the objects that will be on display e.g. amphora depicting Theseus and the Minotaur c 550 BC, Watercolour of Ladies in Blue Fresco by Emile Gillieron Père late 19th C, Map of Crete c. 1420 and ‘Divine Couple’ Ring 1600 – 14550 BC, gold.
ST BARBE MUSEUM, Lymington
Exhibition organised by the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
“Scene through Wood – a century of Wood Engraving”(25th February to 22nd April 2023)
https://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/scene-through-wood-a-century-of-wood-engraving/
Wormell Book of Dust, cover – engraving.
‘Scene Through Wood’ celebrates one of the most astonishingly skillful and richly creative forms of visual art. Curated by Anne Desmet RA, currently the only engraver elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, the exhibition marks 100 years since the founding of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920. It includes 120 works from the Ashmolean’s outstanding collection of prints, plus loans from private collections, by leading artist-engravers from the 1790s right up to the present including Clare Leighton, Joan Hassall, Gwen Raverat, Agnes Miller Parker, Gertrude Hermes, Henry Moore and Paul Nash
RUSSELL-COTES ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, Bournemouth
“Telling Tales: the Story of Victorian Narrative Art” (ends 5th March 2023)
The exhibition explores Victorian attitudes from the cradle to the grave, through paintings chosen to show love and loss, the perils of being a woman, the foreshadowing of adult life through childhood and how war and Empire were legitimised. The exhibition is a collaboration with Southampton City Art Gallery, featuring masterpieces from both collections.
For more details and images use the link below: