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Thursday 01-Jan-2009 - Thursday 31-Dec-2009
Time: 16:00
A ten minute talks about a quick insight into a painting.
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Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey , Art review
National Gallery, London WC2Don't look! It is a sight too cruel to take: the teenage queen, blindfold, in her petticoat, bravely groping for the block on which to lay her young neck. Behind her, one maidservant swoons while the other turns away. Even the executioner averts his gaze. Our eyes go back and forth between the head and the block in horrified anticipation of the axe: witnesses to a scene so agonising even the participants cannot bear to look.Paul Delaroche's The Execution of Lady Jane ...
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Published 07-Mar-10
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National Gallery opens Exhibition of Major Loans of Paintings by Paul Delaroche
LONDON.- The exhibition features seven major international loans of paintings by Delaroche including 'The Princes in the Tower', 1830 and 'Young Christian Martyr', 1854–5 (both Louvre), and 'Strafford on his way to Execution,' 1835 (private collection). Displayed alongside are Delaroche’s expressive preparatory drawings for Lady Jane and a selection of comparative paintings and prints by his contemporaries, including Eugène Lami, Claude Jacquand and François-Marius Granet. On exhibition ...
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Published 25-Feb-10
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