It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience: the chance to see one of the greatest -- and most fragile -- works of European art before your very eyes. The illustrated manuscript known as the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry contains images that have shaped our view of the late Middle Ages, but it's normally kept under lock and key at the Château de Chantilly, north of Paris. It's only been exhibited twice in the past century. Now newly restored, the glowing pages of Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry are on show to the public for just a few months. "Approche, approche," the Duke of Berry's usher tells the visitors to the great man's table for the feast that will mark the start of the New Year. It's also your invitation to examine closely the illustration for January, one of the 12 months from the calendar in this Book of Hours -- a collection of prayers and other religious texts -- that form the centrepiece of this exhibition in Chantilly. It's su...
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is reviving Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours, a show that closed after just five weeks last year due to the Covid pandemic. On from July 15 to November 27, this exhibition features more than 100 works from the museum's own outstanding Pre-Raphaelite collection; Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt and Millais are the big names.
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At the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, the spotlight is on a largely forgotten German-Swiss woman artist. Self Determined: The Painter Ottilie W. Roederstein, starting on July 20, features 75 paintings and drawings by a woman who was once renowned across Europe and America; in 1902, she was the first contemporary female artist to be represented in the Städel's collection. This show runs to October 16.
You have a matter of days, until July 3 in fact, to catch the excellent free show entitled Eileen Mayo: A Natural History at Towner Eastbourne revealing the wide range of art created by Mayo, better known as a model for the likes of Laura Knight and Dod Procter. The Towner also has two new exhibitions on: A Life in Art: Lucy Wertheim, Patron, Collector, Gallerist and Reuniting the Twenties Group: From Barbara Hepworth to Victor Pasmore.
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There are two new exhibitions coming to the Lightbox in Woking, a venue we always enjoy visiting. Starting on July 9, Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden are the stars of a collaboration with the Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden that looks at the story of the artists' colony at Great Bardfield in Essex; more than 30 paintings and drawings will be on display. The Ingram Collection & the Fry Art Gallery: 'Bawden, Ravilious and the Art of Great Bardfield' runs until October 9. The second show, beginning on July 16, sets 20 paintings, prints and drawings of Venice and England by Canaletto alongside work from Melissa McGill's multidisciplinary public art project Red Regatta, which was presented in Venice in 2019. Canaletto and Melissa McGill: Performance and Panorama is on until November 13.
Woking's got much to recommend it, but be honest: Wouldn't you really rather be in the south of France? There's an enticing-looking exhibition at the Musée Bonnard in Le Cannet, close to Cannes, starting on July 2 that looks at how Pierre Bonnard and other artists of his generation, including Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton and Edouard Vuillard, created captivating images of childhood. Enfances rêvées: Bonnard, les Nabis et l'enfance runs until November 6 and will feature more than 80 works.
Or what about Baden-Baden this summer? The Painters of the Sacred Heart at the Frieder Burda Museum focuses on five French exponents of naïve art, most prominently Henri Rousseau and Séraphine Louis. Predominantly made up of works from a collection assembled over six decades by the late German gallery-owner Charlotte Zander, it's on from July 16 to November 20.
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We really loved Whistler's Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan at the Royal Academy in London earlier this year, exploring the brilliant white art that resulted from the relationship between the painter James McNeill Whistler and his model Hiffernan. If you're on the other side of the Atlantic, the good news is that you now have a chance to catch this beautiful show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington from July 3. It's on until October 10.
Last chance to see....
The hugely atmospheric exploration of The World of Stonehenge at the British Museum in London runs until July 17, with some breathtaking objects from across the millennia in gold, bone, stone and even wood.
Book now to avoid disappointment for Raphael at London's National Gallery, which ends on July 31; the final weekend is already sold out. Lots of stunning loans from Italian museums in particular are among the highlights of this exhibition which provides a full overview of Raphael's achievements in a brief but brilliant career.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Reverie, 1868, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Henri Rousseau, Le Lion, ayant faim, se jette sur l'antilope, 1898/1905, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel. Photo: bpk/Roman März
Henri Rousseau, Le Lion, ayant faim, se jette sur l'antilope, 1898/1905, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel. Photo: bpk/Roman März
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White, No 2: The Little White Girl, 1864, Tate Britain
Raphael, Bindo Altoviti, about 1516-18, National Gallery of Art, Washington
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