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Peter Paul Rubens:
A Touch of Brilliance

Short Course
Thursdays, 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 10.00 am to 12.30 pm
Led by the Courtauld Institute’s Dr Sheila McTighe with Lucy Davis, this course includes seminars, lectures and study in the exhibition and galleries.
Fee: £80 (includes admission to the exhibition and to the Courtauld Institute Gallery, plus tea/coffee each day)

Gallery Talks
Each Friday at 1.15 to 1.35 pm, in the Hermitage Rooms
The first is to be given by Ernst Vegelin on The Descent from the Cross.
Free with admission to exhibition.
For further information, please contact Cecily Hennessy, tel. 020 7848 2678.

 

Concert
Thursday 2 October 2003, 8.00 pm at the Banqueting House

Concordia will perform Fit for a King, music for royal masques by John Dowland, William Lawes, Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell.

Ticket: £15, concessions £12. Tickets may be purchased at the Somerset House shops, from FirstCall on 0870 906 3765 (24 hours), or online at

 

Courses and lectures
The following courses and lecture series are jointly organised by the National Gallery and the Courtauld Institute of Art to celebrate the Rubens display in Room 29 of the National Gallery, which includes The Massacre of the Innocents, and this exhibition.


Great Artists: Rubens
Sainsbury Wing Theatre, The National Gallery
Wednesdays, 15, 22, 29 October, 5 November, 10.30 am to 12 noon
Saturdays, 8, 15, 22, 29 November, 11.00 am to 12.30 noon
Course tutor: Norman Coady
Course fee: £52, concessions £40

Study Morning
Peter Paul Rubens: A Touch of Brilliance

Saturday 6 December, 10.15 am to 1.15 pm
Sainsbury Wing Theatre, The National Gallery

Speakers include Dr Christopher Brown, Director of the Ashmolean Museum; Joanna Woodall, Deputy Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and David Jaffé and Lois Oliver from the National Gallery.
Fee: £12, concessions £10, includes tea/coffee

Lecture Series
Wednesdays at 6.30 pm, Sainsbury Wing Theatre

19 November - Rubens: Brains and Brushwork
Nico van Hout of the Rubenianum.
26 November - Rubens' Banqueting Hall Cycle: The Preparatory Work
Gregory Martin, formerly assistant keeper at the National Gallery, Director of Christie's.
6 December - Rubens and his black kings

Elizabeth McGrath, Curator of the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute and a Professor in the History of Art at the University of London.

Ticket: £6, concessions £4; or £15, concessions £9 for all three lectures.

To book any of the National Gallery events: telephone The Phone Room 0870 990 8453 (booking fee will apply), apply online www.nationalgallery.org.uk, or in person at the Advance Ticket Sales Desk, The National Gallery.

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