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Audio and Multimedia Guide Scripts Written 2019 Moment Audio and Multimedia Guide Scripts Written 2019 Moment in Time: The Legacy of Photographs: Works from the Bank of America Collection, National Gallery of Ireland The Pre-Raphaelites: Love and Desire, Palazzo Reale, Milan Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light, National Gallery of Ireland Shaping Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland 2018 Kilmt/Schiele, Royal Academy of Arts Turner: The Watercolours, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome/Tate Britain Emil Nolde: Colour is Life, National Gallery of Ireland 2017 Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites, National Gallery Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, Leighton House Museum Houses of Parliament, Palace of Westminster (Welsh version) Lady Lever Art Gallery, Permanent Collection, Port Sunlight 2016 Flaming June: the Making of an Icon. Leighton House Museum Beyond Caravaggio, National Gallery National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art, Palace House, Newmarket Painters’ Paintings, National Gallery 2015 Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, National Gallery Tate Britain Mobile Guide Updates, Permanent Collection Making Africa, Guggenheim Bilbao Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's The Time, Guggenheim Bilbao Henri Rousseau: il candore arcaico, Doge's Palace, Venice The Sultan's World, BOZAR, Brussels Rubens and his Legacy, Royal Academy of Arts 2014 Van Gogh: l'Uomo e la Terra, Palazzo Reale, Milan Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy of Arts Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice, National Gallery, London Renaissance Impressions: Chiaroscuro woodcuts from the Collections of Baselitz and the Albertina, Royal Academy of Arts Yoko Ono. Half-A-Wind Show. Retrospective, Guggeneim Bilbao Zurbarán, BOZAR, Brussels Meet 500 Years of British Art, Tate Britain, Permanent Display, Digital Mobile Guide 2013 Verso Monet, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona Renoir, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Turin Indomania, Europalia India, BOZAR, Brussels The Body in Indian Art, Europalia India, BOZAR, Brussels George Bellows, Royal Academy of Arts, London Brueghel: Marvels of Flemish Painting, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome 2012 From Raphael to Picasso: The Gaze, Faces and Figures in Art, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée Picasso Paris, Palazzo Reale, Milan Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde, Tate Britain From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism. The Clark Collection, Royal Academy of Arts Gold Rush: Treasures of Ukraine, National Museum of Singapore Turner Inspired: In the Light Claude, National Gallery, London Andy Warhol: Fifteen Minutes Eternal, ArtScience Museum Singapore (in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh) Picasso and Modern British Art, Tate Britain David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, Royal Academy of Arts 2011 Van Gogh e il viaggio di Gauguin, Palazzo Ducale, Genova Emirati Expressions, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi (in collaboration with TDIC) Dreams and Reality, National Museum of Singapore (in collaboration with the Musée d’Orsay) Degas and the Ballet, Royal Academy of Arts, London The Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Clark Collection, Palazzo Reale, Milan (in collaboration with the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown Massachusetts) Musée d’Art de la Ville de Luxembourg, Villa Vauban, Children’s tour Splendours of Mesopotamia, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi (in collaboration with TDIC and the British Museum) 2010 Paris: The Magnificent Years, Castel Sismondo, Rimini Patrons’ tour, Vatican Museums Salvador Dalí: The Dream Approaches, Adult and Kids’ tours, Palazzo Reale, Milan 2009 Japan: Power and Splendour, 1568-1868, Palazzo Reale, Milan Edward Hopper, Adult and Kids’ tours, Palazzo Reale, Milan (in collaboration with Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) From Rembrandt to Gauguin, Adult and Kids’ tours, Castel Sismondo, Rimini (in collaboration with Museum of Fine Arts Boston) Children’s tour, Egyptian Galleries, Vatican Museums Mapping the Studio: The Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana/Palazzo Grassi, Venice The Last Samurai, Palazzo Reale, Milan 2008 Van Gogh: Drawings and Paintings, Adult and Kids’ tours, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia Seurat, Signac and Neo-Impressionism, Palazzo Reale, Milan Renaissance Faces, National Gallery, London Painting the Light: The Impressionists’ Technique, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence Francis Bacon, Palazzo Reale, Milan Pinturicchio, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia Wolvesey Castle, Winchester, English Heritage Millais, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 2007 Renaissance Siena, National Gallery, London Barcelona 1900, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Rodin, Royal Academy of Arts, London Millais, Tate Britain, London Spirit and Life, Ismaili Centre, London Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire, English Heritage Sacred, British Library, London Multimedia Guide, Phase 2, Tate Britain, London 2006 Hogarth, Tate Britain, London Van Gogh and Expressionism, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Amazing Rare Things, Royal Collections, London Cosmic Energy in Indian Sculpture, BOZAR, Brussels Japanese Summer, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Jacop van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape, Royal Academy of Arts, London Multimedia Guide, Phase 1, Tate Britain, London 2005 Director’s Tour, National Gallery, London Mothers, Goddesses and Sultanas: Women in Turkey, BOZAR, Brussels Banqueting House, Historic Royal Palaces, London Canaletto in Venice, Royal Collections, London Samuel Palmer, British Museum, London Birmingham City Art Gallery, England Windsor Castle, VI Tour, England 2004 Philip Guston, Royal Academy of Arts, London The Art of Islam, Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Art of the Golden Age, Royal Collections, London Christopher Dresser: A Design Revolution, Victoria and Albert, London Dalí as Printmaker, National Museum of Poland, Warsaw Leeds Castle, Kent, England Windsor Castle Family Tour, England Turks, Royal Academy, London 2003 Vuillard, Royal Academy of Arts, London Pre-Raphaelite and other Masters: the Collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Royal Academy of Arts, London Illuminating the Renaissance, Royal Academy of Arts, London National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff, Permanent Collection .
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