Tours
12 WORKS · 76 MIN
For children. Everyday life before us
Homes, school, trains and games in twelve paintings. For ages 8–12 and adults.
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23 WORKS · 183 MIN
Florence and Rome. Patrons of the Renaissance
Merchants, monasteries, the Medici and the papal court. The changing work of artists from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century.
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28 WORKS · 210 MIN
Early Impressionism. Paris 1860–1879
The Salon, the first independent exhibition, railway stations, studios and leisure on the Seine.
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22 WORKS · 172 MIN
Love, marriage and encounters
Gods, lovers, spouses and people whose relationships remain unknown.
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31 WORKS · 237 MIN
After Impressionism. Four different answers
Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin changed painting for different reasons.
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17 WORKS · 150 MIN
Russian life. Estate, city and village
How nineteenth-century painters depicted work, wealth, education and changes in everyday life.
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17 WORKS · 131 MIN
Cave, tomb and Roman home
Where images belonged before the familiar museum painting.
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24 WORKS · 190 MIN
Christian images. From mosaic to Caravaggio
Icons, manuscripts, domestic devotional pictures and church altarpieces.
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33 WORKS · 286 MIN
World classics. Altar, palace, exhibition
Familiar paintings and the people for whom they were made.
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18 WORKS · 145 MIN
How painting changed in the early twentieth century
Colour, the human figure and early experiments in abstraction.
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28 WORKS · 206 MIN
American landscape. Land and its inhabitants
Nature, territorial expansion, the Civil War and urban life in American painting.
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27 WORKS · 190 MIN
Chinese landscape. The scholar’s life
Public service, retirement, gardens, poetry and the memory of earlier masters.
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24 WORKS · 166 MIN
Japanese painting. Scrolls and screens
Literature, temples, the arrangement of rooms and everyday life.
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26 WORKS · 190 MIN
The courtly book. Iran and India
Poets, scribes, painters and rulers make an illustrated manuscript.
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14 WORKS · 96 MIN
Indian painting. Recognising a story
Jain manuscripts, Hindu subjects and regional court life.
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18 WORKS · 128 MIN
Buddhist images. Gesture, mandala and journey
How images participated in teaching and ritual across Asia.
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27 WORKS · 205 MIN
Portraits. How people presented themselves
Rulers, merchants, artists and private patrons before a viewer.
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20 WORKS · 151 MIN
Women painters. Learning and working
Family workshops, academies, private commissions and independent exhibitions.
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17 WORKS · 123 MIN
Still life. The value and structure of things
Food, flowers, vessels, books and instruments in an owner’s life and a painter’s work.
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15 WORKS · 112 MIN
History in painting. Events and memory
Who painted war, revolution and state power, and how long after the event.
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12 WORKS · 77 MIN
Russian landscape. From study to painting
Twelve works about observation, travel and artistic choices, from Savrasov and Shishkin to Levitan and Nesterov.
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16 WORKS · 110 MIN
Domestic life. Leisure and care
Sixteen paintings about reading, music, children and the work that makes domestic comfort possible.
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