NOVEMBER 12:30 Film: Joseph Cornell: America, part I 2:00 Gallery Talk: The Age of the 2:00 Gallery Talk: A Perfect Day Enlightenment Worlds in a Box 7:00 Concert: The Maggini String Baroque in Portugal (EB) for Some Familiar Steps: Jan 6:00 Film: Short Films from Latin See bottom panels for introduc­ 2:00 Gallery Talk: A Perfect Day Quartet 2:00 Family Program: Meet Ed­ Steen's "The Dancing Couple" America, part VI tory and foreign language tours; for Some Familiar Steps: Jan ward Hicks (WB) 7:00 Concert: Ney Salgado, piano See reverse side for complete film Steen's "The Dancing Couple " 16 TUESDAY 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Winthrop 's 2:30 Film: Short Films from Latin information. (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Fortress Turner Prints ... America, part V 30 TUESDAY of Konigstein " by Bernardo 6:00 Film: Short Films from Latin 12:00 Gallery Talk: Renaissance 2 TUESDAY 13 SATURDAY Bellotto (new acquisition) (WB) America, part IV 28 SUNDAY Personalities in National Gallery 12:00 Gallery Talk: John James 10:30 Portuguese Baroque 1:00 Gallery Talk: Self-Portraits 7:00 Concert: Oleg Volkov, piano 12:00 Gallery Talk: Reading Art: Portraits (WB) Audubon: The Watercolors for Symposium: The Age of the (WB) Birds in Paintings (WB) "The Birds of America" (EB) Baroque in Portugal 2:00 Gallery Talk: Lovis Corinth: 23 TUESDAY 1:00 Films: Daumier's Law and 12:00 Gallery Talk: The Age of the Master Prints and Drawings (EB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: The Age of Daumier 3 WEDNESDAY Baroque in Portugal (EB) the Baroque in Portugal (EB) 2:00 Gallery Talk: John James 10:15 American Art Lecture 17 WEDNESDAY Asher Brown Duran, Pastoral Landscape, 2:00 Gallery Talk: Daumier as Audubon: The Watercolors for Series: "America the Beautiful": 14 SUNDAY 10:15 American Art Lecture 1861. National Gallery of Art, Gift (Partial and Promised) of the Manoogian Painter (WB) "The Birds of America" (EB) Landscape Painting 12:00 Gallery Talk: The Age of the Series: Scenes of Farm, Frontier, Foundation, in Honor of the Fiftieth 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Portuguese 12:00 Gallery Talk: Giambo- Baroque in Portugal (EB) arid City: Genre Painting Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art 24 WEDNESDAY Architecture and the logna's "Cesarini Venus" (WB) 2:00 Gallery Talk: Giambologna's 12:00 Gallery Talk: The Age of 12:00 Gallery Talk: Renaissance 12:30 Film: Jim Dine: Childhood Edward Hicks, The Grave of William Perm, c. 1847/1848. Gift of Edgar William and "Cesarini Venus" (WB) the Baroque in Portugal (EB) Personalities in National Gallery Bemice Chrysler Garbisch Stories 2:00 Family Program: Meet Ed­ 12:30 Film: Beatrice Wood: Mama 20 SATURDAY Portraits (WB) ward Hicks (WE) ofDada 10:15 American Art Lecture 12:30 Films: Daumier's Law and 4 THURSDAY 2:00 Film: The American Docu­ 9 TUESDAY 3:00 Sunday Lecture: Music of 4:30 Evening with Educators: The Series: Scenes of Farm, Frontier, Daumier 10:15 Western Art Survey Course: mentary: The Diary 12:00 Gallery Talk: John James Baroque Portugal Age of the Baroque in Portugal and City: Genre Painting 2:00 Gallery Talk: Daumier as The Early Renaissance in Italy 2:00 Gallery Talk: A Perfect Day Audubon: The Watercolors for 6:00 Film: Short Films from Latin 12:00 Gallery Talk: Renaissance Painter (WB) 12:30 Film: Jim Dine: Childhood for Some Familiar Steps: Jan "The Birds of America" (EB) 18 THURSDAY Personalities in National Gallery Stories Steen's "The Dancing Couple" 10:15 Western Art Survey Course: Portraits (WB) 26 FRIDAY (WB) 10 WEDNESDAY Fifteenth-Century Northern Art 12:30 Film: Beatrice Wood: Mama 12:00 Gallery Talk: The Age of 5 FRIDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: "Untitled 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Fortress ofDada the Baroque in Portugal (EB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: John James 7 SUNDAY (Medici Prince) " by Joseph Cornell of Konigstein " by Bernardo Bel- 1:00 Gallery Talk: Self-Portraits 12:30 Films: Daumier's Law and Audubon: The Watercolors for 1:00 Film: Jim Dine: Childhood (EB) lotto (new acquisition) (WB) (WB) Daumier "The Birds of America" (EB) Stories 12:30 Film: Joseph Cornell: 12:30 Film: Beatrice Wood: Mama 2:00 Gallery Talk: Old Testament 1:00 Gallery Talk: John James 12:30 Film: Jim Dine: Childhood 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Portugal Worlds in a Box ofDada Heroines in Late Venetian Ren­ Audubon: The Watercolors for Stories and the Wider World 7:00 Film: The Sweet Smell of 1:00 Gallery Talk: The Age of the aissance Painting (WB) "The Birds of America" (EB) 2:00 Gallery Talk: Old Testament 6:00 Film: The American Docu­ Success (doors open at 6:45) Baroque in Portugal (EB) 2:30 Film: Short Films from Latin Heroines in Late Venetian mentary: The Form under America, part II 27 SATURDAY Renaissance Painting (WB) Scrutiny 11 THURSDAY 19 FRIDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Reading Art: 7:00 Concert: National Gallery 1:00 Gallery Talk: Giambologna's 12:30 Film: Beatrice Wood: Mama 21 SUNDAY Birds in Paintings (WB) 6 SATURDAY Orchestra, George Manos, "Cesarini Venus" (WE] ofDada 12:00 Gallery Talk: Renaissance 12:30 Films: Daumier's Law and 10:15 American Art Lecture conductor 2:00 Gallery Talk: Old Testament Personalities in National Gallery- Daumier Lovis Corinth, Walchen Lake, 1919. National Gallery of Art, The Marcy Family Series: "America the Beautiful": 12 FRIDAY Heroines in Late Venetian Portraits (WB) Collection Landscape Painting 12:00 Gallery Talk: "Untitled John James Audubon, Northern Goshawk Renaissance Painting (WB) 1:00 Film: Short Films from Latin 12:30 Film: Jim Dine: Childhood (Medici Prince) " by Joseph Cornell and Cooper's Head, 1809 and 1830. America, part III Collection The New-York Historical Stories (EB) Society

6249 or write to: Education Divi­ Introducing Art 11 at 1:00; November 14 at 2:00 Sunday Concert Sunday Lectures Special Lecture Introductory Tours Audio Tours sion, Tour Scheduling, National Self-Portraits (45 minutes). Eric (WB). Series Lectures Gallery of Art, Washington, B.C. Denker, lecturer. November 16, given by National Series Introduction to the West Building Audio tours are $3.75 ($3.25 for Gallery staff and distinguished senior 20565. Include the type of tour 20atl:00(WB). The Age of the Baroque in Por­ Concerts take place at 7:00 every American Painting: Collection citizens, students, and scholars at 4:00 in the East groups of you are requesting, two alternative tugal (60 minutes). Philip L. Sunday evening through June 26, Subjects of the Artist Monday-Saturday 10:30, 12:30, ten or more). Special Building Auditorium headsets and/or dates and times, the number in Reading Art: Birds in Paintings Leonard or J. Russell Sale, lectur­ 1994. Admission to the National Wilford W. Scott, lecturer and 2:30 scripts are avail­ your group, a contact person, and (45 minutes). Philip L. Leonard, er. November 13, 14, 17, 23, 26 Gallery and its concerts is always Sunday 12:30, 2:30, and 4:30 able for visitors who are hearing NOVEMBER 7 impaired. an address. You will be notified in lecturer. November 27, 28, at noon; November 18 at 1:00; free. Concertgoers are admitted to This series of lectures, continuing West Building Rotunda Portugal and the Wider World To reserve audio tours writing of the status of your December 1 at noon (WB). November 21 at 2:00 (EB). the East Garden Court on a first- from October, examines the ex­ for John Russell-Wood, groups, call (202) 842-6592. request. come, first-served basis beginning panding range of subjects depict­ Introduction to the East Building professor of history Special Exhibitions Lovis Corinth: Master Prints and at 6:00. Concertgoers arriving ed by American artists from the Collection Permanent Focus: The Permanent Collection John James Audubon: The Drawings (60 minutes). between 6:00 and 7:00 may enter The Johns Hopkins University colonial to the modern era. Each Monday-Saturday 11:30 and 1:30 Collection The Director's Tour, narrated Old Testament Heroines in Late Watercolors for "The Birds of Christopher With, head of art only at the 6th Street and subject of the artist reveals chang­ Sunday 11:30, 1:30, and 3:30 by Earl A. Powell III, treats fifteenth- Venetian Renaissance Painting America" (45 minutes). Wilford information. November 16 at Constitution Avenue entrance to NOVEMBER 14 ing attitudes toward the art of East Building, Art Information through early twentieth-century (45 minutes). Rebecca Albiani, W. Scott or Philip L. Leonard, 2:00 (EB). the West Building. Concerts are Music of Baroque Portugal^ painting, its place in American Desk masterpieces and includes graduate lecturing fellow. Novem­ lecturer. November 2, 5, 9 at broadcast on a one-month delayed 3:00 lecture society, and the ways in which some of the Gallery's best-loved ber 5, 19, 20 at 2:00 (WB). noon; November 26 at 1:00; Curators and Conservators and basis every Sunday evening at See Portuguese Baroque American artists evoked contem­ paintings. American Art, narrated by Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Medici Prince), November 28 at 2:00 (EB). Specialists: "The Fortress of 7:00 on radio station WGTS 91.9- Symposium Information porary themes of national identi­ Foreign Language Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., curator c. 1953. National Gallery of Art, Gift of A Perfect Day for Some Familiar Konigstein" byBernardo Bellotto FM. For further information, call ty. These lectures will be held in of the Collectors Committee American and British painting, Steps: Jan Steen 's "The Dancing Giambologna's "Cesarini Venus" (New Acquisition-Patrons' (202)842-6941. NOVEMBER 21 the East Building Auditorium at Tours features works by Copley, Stuart, Couple " (Widener Collection) (45 (30 minutes). J. Russell Sale or Permanent Fund) (30 minutes). Winthrop's Turner Prints, or How 10:15 on Wednesdays and repeat­ Foreign language tours of the per­ Cole, Homer, Eakins, Whistler, minutes). Aneta Georgievska- Philip L. Leonard, lecturer. Peter Bowron, senior curator of NOVEMBER 7 America's Greatest Collector of ed on Saturdays at the same time manent collection are offered on Gallery Talks Bellows, and other masters from Shine, graduate lecturing fellow. November 3 at noon; November paintings. November 16, 18 at National Gallery Orchestra Archaic Chinese Jades, French and place. All programs men­ Tuesdays. Tours of the West the Gallery's collection of Tours and lectures are given by November 6, 12, 27 at 2:00 (WB). noon (WB). George Manos, conductor 19th-century Drawings, and Pre- tioned are open to the public but Building are at noon and begin in American painting. education division lecturers and Works by Bach, Brahms, and Raphaelite Paintings Came to seating is limited. the Rotunda. Tours of the East Tapes of the permanent collec­ National Gallery staff. Unless oth­ "Untitled (Medici Prince) " by Dvorak Love Art and Design Landscapes Building are at 2:00 and begin at tion may be rented in the Rotunda erwise noted, talks begin in either Joseph Cornell (Gift of The Col­ Majorie B. Cohn, Carl A. November 3 and 6 the Art Information Desk of the on the main floor of the West the Rotunda of the West Building lectors Committee) (20 minutes). NOVEiMBER 14 Weyerhaeuser curator of prints "America the Beautiful": East Building. Building. (WB) or at the Ground Floor Art Robin Thorne Ptacek, lecturer. The Maggini String Quartet Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Landscape Painting Information Desk of the East November 10, 12 at noon (EB). Works by Hayden, Szymanowski, University November 2: French Special Exhibitions Building (EB). and Albergo November 17 and 20 November 9: Spanish The Age of the Baroque in Por­ Renaissance Personalities in NOVEMBER 21 NOVEMBER 28 Scenes of Farm, Frontier, and November 16: German and tugal, narrated by Earl A. Powell Sign Language Tours National Gallery Portraits (60 Oleg Volkov, piano Portuguese Architecture and the City: Genre Painting Spanish III, director, National Gallery of Tours of the permanent collection minutes). J. Russell Sale, lecturer. Works by Bach, Beethoven, and Enlightenment November 23: Italian and special exhibitions are avail­ November 20, 21, 24, 30, De­ Rachmaninoff Hellmut Wohl, professor of art Art, is available at the entrance to the exhibition in the East able with a sign language inter­ cember 3 at noon (WB). history, Boston University Spanish tours are repeated regu­ Building. preter for groups of five or more, NOVEMBER 28 larly on the third Tuesday of every and may be scheduled with four Daumier as Painter (45 minutes). Ney Salgado, piano month. Meet in the East Building weeks notice. For adult groups, Eric Denker, lecturer. November Works by Beethoven, Santoro, and at 12:00 and West Building at please call (202) 842-6247; for 23, 24 at 2:00 (WB). Chopin Jan Steen, The Dancing Couple, 1663. National Gallery of Art, Widener Collection 2:00. school groups call (202) 842- National Gallery of Art OPENING EXHIBITION

Film Programs The Age of the Baroque in Portugal East Building Auditorium November 7, 1993-February 6, 1994 East Building, Mezzanine and Upper Level Short Films from Latin America., a six-part film exhibition organized by This first major art exhibition sent Portuguese arid French table silver, Portugues, Banco Totta & Acores, the American Federation of Arts, will by Portugal to the United States sur­ elaborately carved and decorated The Calouste Gulbenkian Founda­ be shown on weekends beginning veys the opulent art of the eighteenth furniture, faience, porcelain, and tion, and the Luso-American Sunday, November 14. The series century, a period of brilliant achieve­ magnificent jewelry. Development Foundation. includes a total of thirty-six short ment and patronage in the arts in The fully illustrated exhibition Additional support has been provid­ films (that is, films of less than 45 Portugal. Among the extraordinary catalogue is the first major work in ed by the Instituto Camoes, the minutes duration) arranged in the­ treasures displayed are a sixty-six - English devoted to eighteenth-centu­ Orient Foundation, Investimento e matic groups: the land; people at foot-long, hand-painted tile frieze ry art and culture in Portugal. The Participacoes Empresariais, S.A., work; change and conflict; mascu­ depicting the Lisbon skyline as it exhibition is made possible by gener­ and the International Corporate line/feminine; heroes and healers; appeared in the earlv eighteenth cen­ ous grants from Pacific Telesis Circle of the National Gallery of Art, creativity arid expression. All of the Glauberfilms/counesy A FA. ('nun La Cruz Gil (The Cross of the Gil), part of the series tury, a monumental carved and gild­ Foundation, Espirito Santo Financial and the Portuguese Secretary of films, which were made between "Short Films from Latin America ed wood altarpiece, and an elabo­ Holding S.A.. Banco Cornercial State for Culture. 1953 and 1990, are of exceptional rately decorated gilded coach created quality and beauty, typical of the by Stan Brakhage, Ernie Gehr. and by Jorge Ruiz, Fernando Birri, and for a celebrated ambassadorial pro­ short works that are being produced others, 150 minutes); November 7 at others, 112 minutes); November 21 cession in Rome in 1716. The exhibi­ today by Latin American filmmak- 6:00. at 1:00. tion of approximately 120 objects is ers. Program notes will be available organized by the National Gallery at each screening in both English The Sweet Smell of Success Short Films from Latin America, and the Portuguese Secretary of and Spanish. On November 6 and 7, (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957, 96 part IV: Masculine/Feminine (films State for Culture with the Instituto the final segments of a series on the minutes, followed by discussion with by Grupo Chaski, Alejandro Portugues de Museus. history of the American documentary actor Tony Curtis); November 10 at Saderman, and others, 91 minutes); Early in the eighteenth century, movement will include a program on 7:00. November 21 at 6:00. discoveries of large deposits of gold, film diaries, and a program on diamonds, and emeralds in Brazil, experiments with the documentary Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box Daumier's Law (Paul McCartney then under Portuguese rule, ushered form. On November 10 at 7:00, (BBC, 1990, video, 51 minutes): and Geoff Dunbar, 1992, 16 min­ in a period of great prosperity in actor Tony Curtis will be present to November 10 arid 12 at 12:30. utes) arid Daumier (Roger Portugal. These resources enabled introduce his 1957 film The Sweet Leenhardt, 1954, 15 minutes); the Portuguese crown and nobility to Smell of Success and informally dis­ Short Films from Latin America, November 24, 26, 27 at 12:30, offer major commissions to the finest cuss his friend and fellow artist part I: The Land (films by Carlos November 28 at LOO. masters in Europe, as well as to sup­ Joseph Cornell. Lersundy, Noel Lima, and others. 85 port Portuguese artistic production minutes); November 14 at 6:00. Short Films from Latin America, at the highest level of quality. Other Jim Dine: Childhood Stories (Nancy part V: Heroes and Healers (films objects in the exhibition range from Dine, 1992, 30 minutes); November Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (Tom by Santiago Alvarez, Victor Benitez, rarely seen silk vestments to unusual 3 through 6 at 12:30, November 7 at Neff. 1993, 58 minutes): November and others, 107 minutes); and beautiful scientific instruments 1:00 (Nancy Dine introduces). 17 through 20 at 12:30. November 27 at 2:30. that were assembled at the Real Fabrica do Rato. Period of Thomaz Brunette, 1767-1771, Tureen in the Form of a Uriiversitv of Coimbra as well as Barrel/ of Fish. Museu National de Arte Antiga. Lisbon The American Documentary; part XI: Short Films from Latin America, part Short Films from Latin America, The Diary- (films by Jonas Mekas, II: People at Work (films by Adrian part IT: Creativity and Expression Ross McElwee, Lynn Hershman, and Cooper, Ramiro Lacayo. arid others. (films by Octavio Cortazar. others, 130 minutes); November 6 at Ill minutes); November 20 at 2:30. Fernando Amaral, Mario Handler, 2:00. and others, 105 minutes); CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS Short Films from Latin America, November 28 at 6:00. The American Documentary, part part HI: Change and Conflict (films XII: The Form under Scrutiny (films John James Audubon: The Watercolors for "The Birds of America" through January 2, 1994, East Building, Upper Level

The Age of the Saturday. November 13 Carrying Silver From Rome to Lisbon While the work of John James works of art since they were begun in 1820 and completed in Baroque in Portugal: Art and Architecture in 15th-century Jennifer Montagu Audubon (1785-1851) has achieved acquired by the Historical Society 1838. By illustrating birds engaged Portugal Warburg Institute. London great popularity and frequent repro­ from the artist's widow in 1863. The in typical activities in their native A Symposium 10:30 Moderator: Graca Almeida duction, the original watercolors that extraordinary freshness and vitality habitats, the artist expanded on the Saturday, November 13 and Rodrigues. Embassy of Portugal The Sculptor Machado de Castro served as the models for his well- of the life-size images have been fur­ long tradition of depicting plants and and the Paradigm of the Cultivated known prints are rarely seen. This Sunday, November 14 ther revealed through recent conser­ animals in single profile views, begun ,4 Historical Sketch of Portugal Artist exhibition presents almost ninety vation. A group of ten early draw­ in medieval East Building Large pattern books, herbals, in the 18th Century Fernando Antonio Baptista Pereira watercolors for Audubon s The Birds ings in the collection of the and bestiaries, and continued during Auditorium Graca Almeida Rodrigues director, Museu do Convento de of America. Organized by The New- Houghton Library at Harvard the Renaissance in printed botanical Jesus. Setubal York Historical Society from its per­ University are also on view. and zoological tracts. Audubon, The symposium has been made Churches. Palaces, and Country manent collection, it is the first trav­ The Birds of America, Audubon s unlike his predecessors, preferred to possible by the Instituto Camoes. Houses in 18th-century Portugal Sunday, November 14 eling exhibition of these landmark mammoth set of 435 images, was base his drawings on freshly killed Hellmut Wohl.. professor of art Music in the Age of the Baroque in specimens rather than stuffed birds history. Boston University Portugal in a studio. His work emerged from direct, intimate knowledge of his Freemasonry in Portugal in the 18th 3:00-5:00 subjects that he gained during his Century Music of Baroque Portugal extensive travels across America. Antonio Henrique de Oliveira Rui Vieira Nery,director Following its opening at the Marques, professor, University ol Department of Music, National Gallery, the exhibition will Lisbon The Calouste Gulbenkian travel to Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Foundation. Lisbon Houston, Memphis, New York, 12:30 Intermission Seattle, and San Francisco. A fully Recital of Music of Portugal's illustrated exhibition catalogue is 2:00 Moderator: Jay A. Levenson. C,olden Age available as well as an expanded vol­ curator of the exhibition Musica Antiqua. John Guillory, ume containing reproductions of the director complete collection of the 470 Lisbon, "This New Rome ": Dom Works by Lobo. Seixas. Carvalho, Audubon watercolors at The New- Joao V of Portugal and Relations and D. Scarlatti York Historical Society. The exhibi­ Between Rome arid Lisbon in the tion at the National Gallery is made Eighteenth Century possible by NationsBank. Angela Delaforce John James Audubon, Roseate Spoonbill, Portuguese. Armchair, third quarter eight­ Independent scholar. London 1831-1832. The New-York Historical Society eenth century. Private Collection. Lisbon CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS NEW ACQUISITION

Lovis Corinth: Master Prints and Drawings Bernardo Bellotto's The Fortress ofKonigstein from the Marcy Family and the National West Building, Main Floor Gallery 37 Gallery of Art through February 21, 1994 The National Gallery of Art has acquired a spectacular painting by East Building, Ground Floor the Italian master Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780), one of the most origi­ One of the most important figures in range of styles over the course of his nal landscape and view painters in turn-of-the-century German art, career. While committed to the real­ eighteenth-century Europe. The Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) was a ist tradition, he continually sought to Fortress ofKonigstein (52 1A x 92% painter, draftsman, and accom­ enlarge the boundaries of its expres­ inches), remarkable for its quality, plished printmaker. This exhibition sive potential. Spanning the range of size, and state of preservation, is one presents seventy-four of Corinth's Corinth's interests, the show includes of five large views of an ancient prints and drawings, including many nudes, portraits, self-portraits, fortress in the neighborhood of rare and extremely fine impressions. mythological and religious scenes, Dresden, commissioned from Bellotto It celebrates the magnificent gift to interiors, and the late landscapes by Augustus III, king of Poland and Lovis Corinth, Sheet of Sketches (detail). the National Gallery of 134 works that remain among the most popular National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Elector of Saxony. It is a landscape from the Sigbert H. Marcy family. images of his oeuvre. Represented Collection painting of unrivaled scale and Marcy had been a close friend and are etching, drypoint, lithography, majesty both for the artist and for patron of Corinth's and was able to and woodcut. The Marcy family, ed, made their gift in memory of eighteenth-century European art and choose prints of the highest quality. who came to America in 1941, the Sigbert H. Marcy and in honor of will heighten viewers' understanding Corinth experimented with a year the National Gallery was found- the Gallery's 50th anniversary. of this artist's unique contribution to the genre. The new painting is in­ stalled together with four of the Gallery's view paintings by Cana- letto, recently cleaned for the occa­ sion. The Fortress ofKonigstein was Bernardo Bellotto, The Fortress ofKonigstein (detail), 1756-1758. National Gallery of Art, Giambologna's Cesarini Venus acquired by the Gallery with income Patrons' Permanent Fund from its Patrons' Permanent Fund. September 26, 1993 - January 17, 1994 West Building, Main Floor Galleries 11, 12, and 17 History of Western Exhibition Evening with Focusing on the development of through his workshop. His prized Art: Part I Catalogues Educators the female nude in the oeuvre of the bronze statuettes were given as great European sculptor diplomatic presents to European Continuing from September 30, the The Age of the Baroque in Portugal November 17, 1993 Giambologna (1529-1608), this rulers. Among his most famous education division is offering a sur­ $25.00 (softbound) 4:30-7:30 exhibition features one of his master­ sculptures are Flying Mercury, Rape vey course on the history of $60.00 (hardbound) pieces in marble, known after its first of a Sabine, and Samson Slaying a European art and its background. This teacher workshop focuses on the owner as the Cesarini Venus. Cleaned Philistine. This series of lectures, which focuses John James Audubon: The Water- exhibition The Age of the Baroque in and restored in preparation for the In addition to the U.S. Embassy on the Gallery's collections, exam­ colors for "The Birds of America" Portugal. This after-hours program, exhibition, the sculpture will be in Rome, lenders to the show include ines the development of painting, $39.95 (softbound) for teachers of all subjects and joined by related works in bronze by the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, sculpture, and architecture from the $75.00 (hardbound) grades, consists of a slide overview Giambologna. Since the beginning of Florence; the Kunsthistorisches ancient world to the seventeenth conducted by Wilford W. Scott, an the century, the Cesarini Venus has Museum, Vienna; the Museum of century. The lectures for part one, Lovis Corinth: Master Prints and exhibition viewing with recorded occupied a niche high above a stair­ Fine Arts, Boston; and The National given by J. Russell Sale of the educa­ Drawings from the Marcy Family tour, and a performance by Musica case in the Palazzo Margherita. now Trust. Anglesey Abbey, England. tion staff, are being held in the East and the National Gallery of Art Antiqua. a baroque ensemble. Nom­ the United States Embassy in Rome. Available at the exhibition entrance Building Auditorium at 10:15 on $25.00 inal fee includes refreshments. Pre- Because of its location, the sculpture is a booklet written by Anthony F. Thursdays. This free program is registration required. For more infor­ has not been included in any recent Radcliffe, keeper emeritus of sculp­ open, to the public but seating is Available from the National mation call (202) 842-6796. exhibition of works by Giambologna. ture, Victoria and Albert Museum, limited. Gallery s publications service Giambologna, born Jean Boulogne London, and currently Samuel H. Sales Information (202) 84.2-6466 in Douai, France, was one of the Kress professor at the National NOVEMBER 4 Mail Order (301) 322-5900 Giambologna, Venus Drying Herself after the most influential mannerist sculptors. Gallery. The exhibition is made pos­ The Early Renaissance in Italy Bath (Cesarini Venus), 1583. Embassy of He spent most of his working life in sible by Republic National Bank of the United States of America. Rome, U.S. Florence in the service of the Medici. New York. Holiday Greeting Cards Department of State NOVEMBER 18 His stvle was widely disseminated Fifteenth-century Northern Art A selection of 1993 holiday gift cards is now available in the West Building DECEMBER 2 Sales Shop, with more than twenty cards to choose from. The assortment Fifteenth-century Italian Art includes both secular and religious themes, with works by such artists as Adult Guides to the Family Guides to the Matisse, Monet, Audubon. Rothko. Veronese, David, and Botticelli, as well Family Programs as works from the Index of American Design. All cards are reproductions of Duccio di Buoninsegna. Nativity with the Collection Collection Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel, 1308/1311. popular works of art found in the Gallery's collection; prices range from Meet Edward Hicks is a two-hour National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon S5.95 to S12.95 for boxed sets. Landscape Paintings at the National Portraits & Personalities guides fam­ program which introduces the Collection Gallery of Art focuses on interpreta­ ilies on an interactive exploration of American naive artist Edward Hicks tions of nature in nineteen works by seven famous works including through his paintings and the work European and American painters David's painting Napoleon in His of other naive artists. The program produced over the last five centuries. Study and two marble busts of includes a gallery tour followed by The brochure is made possible in Voltaire by Houdon. Available at the an activity related to the artist. Meet part by a gift from Eee and Juliet West Building Main Floor Art Edward Hicks is at 2:00 on Sunday, Folger/The Folger Fund. Available Information Room. November 14, and repeats on in the West Building Art Information November 21. This program is Room and at the East Building Art Shapes & Patterns focuses on offered for families with children Information Desk. aspects of the East Building's art and ages six to ten. Space is limited; reg­ "/ am Still Learning": Late Works architecture of particular interest to ister by calling (202) 842-6249. by Masters examines works by such younger visitors. Available at the artists as Titian, Rembrandt, East Building Art Information Desk. Winslow Homer, Paul Cezanne, and Henri Matisse, who pursued their art Both brochures are made possible in their last years with continuing by a grant from the Vira I. Heinz creativity and inspiration. Available Endowment. Approximate tour time in the West Building Main Floor Art for each is 45 minutes. 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