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Lunchtime Lectures

Byzantium Promo

Icons and the Practice of Prayer

16 Jan 2009

His Grace Dr Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, gives a special talk on prayer and icons. £14/£6 reductions (includes exhibition entry and lecture), £10 (includes lecture)

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Peter Freeth RA, Bodies

Free Artist’s Talk

Peter Freeth RA: My Affair with Resin

31 Jan 2009 Free

Peter Freeth RA introduces his prints on display and talks about his unique working practice.

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Palladio Promo

Andrea Palladio

The Eternal Contemporary

9 Feb 2009 Free

MaryAnne Stevens, exhibition co-curator.

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The Making of Byzantium 330-1453

23 Feb 2009 Free

Dr Adrian Locke, exhibition co-curator

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The Waning of Palladio’s Influence: 1750–1850

2 Mar 2009 Free

Charles Hind, H. J. Heinz Curator of the RIBA Drawings Collection.

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Show photo credits

Joan Miró, The Birth of Day 1 (Naissance du jour 1), 1964. Oil on canvas, 146 x 113.5 cm. Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul. Photo © Galerie Maeght.
© Succession Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008.

 

The Antioch Chalice, Byzantine, from Syria, possibly Kaper Koraon or Antioch, first half of the sixth century. Silver cup set in footed silver-gilt shell, Height 19. 7 cm. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Cloisters Collection, 1950 (50.4). Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art