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Exhibitions

Oil and tempera on red beechwood, 37.7 x 24.5 cm

Cranach

8 Mar—8 Jun 2008

In the Sackler Wing of Galleries

2008 Season supported by Sotheby's

The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition in Britain devoted to Lucas Cranach the Elder (c.1472–1553). The exhibition brings together some 70...

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Shaw Promo

Artful Practice: Architectural Drawings by Richard Norman Shaw RA (1831-1912)

23 Feb—25 May 2008
Free

Norman Shaw changed the face of English architecture in the last third of the 19th century. Working in the spirit of local vernacular building traditions rather than to the letter of textbook historicism...

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Architects Who Made London Promo

The Architects Who Made London

15 Feb—4 Jun 2008

In the Architecture Space


Free

Against a backdrop of contextual photographs of London by Richard Bryant, this display looks at six architects from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century who have had a significant impact on the London...

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Summer Show Promo

Summer Exhibition 2008

9 Jun—17 Aug 2008

In the Main Galleries

Sponsored by Insight Investment.

The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition is the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world. Held annually since the Royal Academy’s foundation in 1768, the...

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Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence

28 Jun—7 Sep 2008

In the Sackler Wing of Galleries

Supported by Oak Foundation Denmark and Novo Nordisk

The Royal Academy of Arts will be holding the first Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) retrospective in Great Britain. The exhibition will feature...

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Hillier Square Promo

Tristram Hillier RA (1905–1983)

14 Mar—25 Jun 2008

In the Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends of the Royal Academy


Free

In the art of Tristram Hillier RA, 20th century English Surrealism is seen at its elegantly restrained best. This exhibition, which covers a wide range of work from the 1920s to the early 1980s, provides...

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Oil on canvas with a medal, 100 x 100 cm

RA Schools Show 2008

11—20 Jun 2008

In RA Schools


Free

The annual Schools Show sees the transformation of the Schools studios into a stunning contemporary gallery space. This year, the show will highlight works by 17 RA Schools students who have completed...

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Oil on canvas.

From All Walks of Life

Genre paintings from the Royal Academy Collection

Until 07 Dec 2008

In the John Madejski Fine Rooms


Free

This display explores the rich variety of genre paintings, or subjects of everyday life, from the Royal Academy's own collection.

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'A Secure Delight': Engravings of Landscape Gardens from Vitruvius Brittanicus (1739)

Until 04 Jul 2008

In the Library Print Room


Free

This series of illustrated garden plans by the Huguenot-born landscape surveyor John Rocque (c.1704-1762) is the most important surviving visual record we have of the great aristocratic gardens of early...

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Show photo credits

 

Vilhelm Hammershøi, 'Interior with Young Woman seen from the Back' (detail), c.1903–1904. Oil on canvas, 61 x 50.5 cm. Randers Kunstmuseum. Photo Niels Erik Høybye

Tristram Hillier RA, Alcañiz (detail), 1961. Oil on canvas, 70 x 80 cm. Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest, 1962. Tate Britain