Bronze: Opening Reception

11 September 2012

Chimera of Arezzo, Etruscan, c. 400 BCE Bronze. 78.5 x 129 cm. Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana. Photo Antonio Quattrone, Florence. Main Galleries
6.30–8.30pm

This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary historical, geographical, and stylistic range of this global art form. It will bring together outstanding works from the past five millennia in a thematic arrangement that is fresh and unique. No such cross-cultural exhibition on this scale has ever been attempted. The medieval period offers outstanding and rare survivals and the Renaissance too, in the works of artists like Ghiberti, Donatello, Cellini, and later Giambologna, De Vries and others. Works by Rodin, Boccioni, Picasso, Jasper Johns, Giacometti, Moore, Beuys and Bourgeois are representative of the best from the nineteenth century to today.

Ticket information
Book on 020 7300 5885 or by filling in the form below.
Silver, Gold & Platinum Patrons are invited to attend 4, 6 or all ORs respectively

• Royal Academy of Arts