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Dulwich Picture Gallery Talk and Tour

Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 12:30 PM (GMT)

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
SCGB members Ended £25.00 £0.00
Non-SCGB members Ended £27.50 £0.00
Seniors Ended £24.00 £0.00

Event Details

London probably has the richest and most varied art collections of any city in the world. These collections are housed in buildings which have been at the cutting-edge of gallery design from the time of Sir John Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1812, to the hugely successful Tate Modern of our own day. The lecture will be hosted by Geoffrey Tyack - Director of the Stanford Programme in Oxford. Geoffrey’s discussion will focus on Sir John Sloane, along with interesting facts about the collections in the gallery. After the lecture, a light buffet with wine will be provided. Guests will then have the opportunity to explore the permanent collection of Old Master paintings, by Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin, Gainsborough and others with the added opportunity to visit the Adam Elsheimer (1578 – 1610): Devil in the Detail exhibition. Elsheimer is one of the most subtle, most original and the most influential painters in the history of art. Elsheimer was a miniaturist and a meticulous worker, his largest painting is just two feet high; his smallest a mere three inches. However, his output played a crucial part in the formation of three of the most important artists in the seventeenth century – Rubens, Rembrandt and Claude Lorrain. Dulwich is the third venue for this exhibition, which is the first ever Adam Elsheimer show in Britain. It started at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, 17 March to 5 June 2006, and to the National Gallery of Scotland, 23 June to 3 September 2006, before coming to London.