Tours

Homes, school, trains and games in twelve paintings. For ages 8–12 and adults.

Merchants, monasteries, the Medici and the papal court. The changing work of artists from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century.

The Salon, the first independent exhibition, railway stations, studios and leisure on the Seine.

Gods, lovers, spouses and people whose relationships remain unknown.

Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin changed painting for different reasons.

How nineteenth-century painters depicted work, wealth, education and changes in everyday life.

Where images belonged before the familiar museum painting.

Icons, manuscripts, domestic devotional pictures and church altarpieces.

Familiar paintings and the people for whom they were made.

Colour, the human figure and early experiments in abstraction.

Nature, territorial expansion, the Civil War and urban life in American painting.

Public service, retirement, gardens, poetry and the memory of earlier masters.

Literature, temples, the arrangement of rooms and everyday life.

Poets, scribes, painters and rulers make an illustrated manuscript.

Jain manuscripts, Hindu subjects and regional court life.

How images participated in teaching and ritual across Asia.

Rulers, merchants, artists and private patrons before a viewer.

Family workshops, academies, private commissions and independent exhibitions.

Food, flowers, vessels, books and instruments in an owner’s life and a painter’s work.

Who painted war, revolution and state power, and how long after the event.

Twelve works about observation, travel and artistic choices, from Savrasov and Shishkin to Levitan and Nesterov.

Sixteen paintings about reading, music, children and the work that makes domestic comfort possible.