Gallery Talks
Lunchtime Gallery Talks January – April 2012
Thursdays at 1.15pm
These informal talks, led by members of the Barber staff and guiding team, or by guest curators, focus on individual works of art or smaller exhibitions. They last approximately 15 minutes and are held in front of the works themselves. Please arrive in good time as talks start promptly.
January
Thursday 12
Tennis Parties in Art
Prof Ann Sumner
Thursday 19
Year of the Dragon: Chinese Jade Bowl
Julia McKeown, Fellow of the Gemological Association of Great Britain
Thursday 26
Picture of the Month
James McNeill Whistler: Symphony in White, No. III
Pam Turton, Volunteer Guide
February
Thursday 2
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: Countess Golovine
Maria Daniels
Thursday 9
The Age of Leonardo: An Introduction to the Display
Naomi Rees, Curatorial/Learning and Access Intern
Thursday 16,
Lunchtime Gallery Talk
‘An old man’s fancy’: Peter Paul Rubens’s A Landscape in Flanders
John Southall, Volunteer Guide
Thursday 23,
Picture of the Month
Rosalba Carriera: Portrait of Gustavus Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Boyne
Tess Radcliffe
March
Thursday 1,
Picture of the Month
The Deposition, Early Netherlandish Triptych
Robert Wenley
Thursday 8,
Seen/Unseen: An Introduction to the Exhibition
Tamsin Foulkes
Thursday 15,
Behind the Scenes: Prints and Drawings Study Room
Alex Jolly
Thursday 22,
Behind the Golden Gates: The Barber’s Coin Collection
Eurydice Georgantelli
Thursday 29,
Dürer’s Works on Paper
Tamsin Foulkes
April
Thursday 19,
Picture of the Month
Cima de Conegliano: Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist
Emalee Beddoes