<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Greetings to all within the Barony,<br><br></div>Please permit me to humbly introduce myself as a new Deputy Minister of Arts and Sciences serving the crafty and creative (and those who would be so) among us. Yet the exhibits described in this message I believe to be of interest to all, inasmuch as they require no great effort or talent to attend.<br>
<br></div><div>A happy Thanksgiving to you,<br></div><div><br></div>Giovanna la Nuova <br><br><div><div><div><div><br><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28114957&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/heaven-and-earth.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28114957" target="_blank"><i><b>Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections</b></i></a></span>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="Left"><a name="1429a8a8c4f2900c_linked_object_294166"><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;text-decoration:none;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal"><b>West Building Main Floor</b>
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<a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28114958&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/heaven-and-earth.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28114958" target="_blank"><img src="http://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/NGart/2013_10_03_Exhibitions.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="200" hspace="10" width="200"></a><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal">In
324 Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire
from Rome some thousand miles to the east, near the site of the ancient
Greek city of Byzantium on the Bosphorus Strait linking the Aegean and
Black Seas. Renamed Constantinople (now Istanbul), the city became the
largest and wealthiest in the Christian world. It remained the dominant
power, especially in the eastern Mediterranean, for more than 1,000
years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. In the first-ever
exhibition
of Byzantine art at the Gallery, masterpieces from Greek collections
(both public and private), many never before lent to the United States,
will be on view - among them mosaics, icons, manuscripts, jewelry, and
ceramics. Some 170 important works, including newly discovered and
unpublished objects, reveal the rich and multifaceted culture of
Byzantium. Divided into five thematic sections, the exhibition explores
the coexistence of paganism and Christianity, secular works of art used
in the home,
the intellectual life of Byzantine scholars, and the art of the
Palaiologan dynasty before the fall of Byzantium.
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<br><a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28114959&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/heaven-and-earth.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28114959" target="_blank">www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/heaven-and-earth.html</a> (Exhibition Information)
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<div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><br><br><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28114974&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/kainen-northern-mannerist.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28114974" target="_blank"><i><b>Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection</b></i></a></span>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="Left"><a name="1429a8a8c4f2900c_linked_object_294185"><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;text-decoration:none;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal"><b>Through <span class=""><span class="">January 5, 2014</span></span></b></span></a></td>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="Left"><a name="1429a8a8c4f2900c_linked_object_294186"><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;text-decoration:none;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal"><b>West Building Ground Floor</b></span></a></td>
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<a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28114975&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/kainen-northern-mannerist.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28114975" target="_blank"><img src="http://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/NGart/2013_09_06_Exhibitions1.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="200" hspace="10" width="200"></a><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal">Ruth
Cole Kainen was one of the most important collectors of prints and
drawings in recent decades, and bequeathed major works to the National
Gallery of Art. This exhibition—the first of three to focus on central
aspects of her bequest—presents some 50 works that embody the
sophisticated imagery, extraordinary stylization, and virtuoso technique
of the printmaking industry that flourished in the northern Netherlands
and at the imperial court of Prague in the late 16th century. Featured
are choice
impressions by the creator of the style, Hendrick Goltzius, as well as
his outstanding early drawing
<i>Ignis</i>.
Also included are exquisite interpretations by the finest engravers of
the powerful works of Goltzius and the leading Netherlandish painters
Cornelis van Haarlem, Abraham Bloemaert, and Bartholomaeus Spranger.
Earlier gifts by Ruth and Jacob Kainen are also on view.
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<br><a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28114976&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/kainen-northern-mannerist.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28114976" target="_blank">www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/kainen-northern-mannerist.html</a> </span><br>
<br><br><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28114977&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/metamorphoses.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28114977" target="_blank"><i><b>From the Library:
<br>The Transformation of Ovid's Metamorphoses</b></i></a></span>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="Left"><a name="1429a8a8c4f2900c_linked_object_294190"><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;text-decoration:none;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal"><b>Through <span class=""><span class="">February 9, 2014</span></span></b></span></a></td>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="Left"><a name="1429a8a8c4f2900c_linked_object_294191"><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;text-decoration:none;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal"><b>West Building Ground Floor</b></span></a></td>
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<a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28114978&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/metamorphoses.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28114978" target="_blank"><img src="http://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/NGart/2013_11_27_Exhibitions.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="200" hspace="10" width="200"></a><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal">By the sixteenth century, Ovid's
<i>Metamorphoses</i>
had become the most important single source for mythological lore from
the ancient world. It was read in many different languages, from the
original Latin to vernacular translations in German, Italian, French,
English, and Dutch, to name but a few. In addition, it was edited,
adapted, reworked, and rewritten in various styles according to the
changing tastes and needs of the time. From scholarly versions with
dense Latin text and scholarly commentaries and notes to picture books
with abbreviated
text in rhymes and large illustrations, from tiny pocket-sized books to
lavishly bound multi-volume tomes, there was an edition of the
<i>Metamorphoses</i>
to suit everyone.
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<br>Through selections from the Library's rare book collection,
supplemented with prints, drawings, medals, and decorative arts objects,
this exhibition illustrates the history and enduring popularity of
Ovid's
<i>Metamorphoses</i>
with readers, scholars, artists, and poets into the twentieth century.
Addressing the question of how the text was used, delineating the kinds
of books that were produced and their intended audiences, and exploring
the various types of images that accompanied the text in this diverse
range of editions, the exhibition explores some of the ways the text
itself, and images derived from it, were transformed and consumed over
time.
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<br><a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28114979&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/metamorphoses.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28114979" target="_blank">www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2013/metamorphoses.html</a> </span><br>
<br><br><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28189968&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/permanent/dutch_cabinets.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28189968" target="_blank"><i><b>The Dutch Cabinet Galleries</b></i></a></span>
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<a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28189969&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/permanent/dutch_cabinets.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28189969" target="_blank"><img src="http://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/NGart/2013_11_27_Exhibitions2.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="200" hspace="10" width="200"></a><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal">The
Dutch Cabinet Galleries, which opened in 1995, provide a suite of
intimately sized rooms for exhibiting the small-scale Dutch and Flemish
paintings in the collections of the National Gallery of Art. The Cabinet
Galleries consist of three rooms that gracefully flow into each other
through a series of open doorways. Aside from the display of small-scale
paintings, the Dutch Cabinet Galleries provide an ideal space for focus
exhibitions that place Dutch and Flemish works in their historical
context.
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<br><a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28189970&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/permanent/dutch_cabinets.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28189970" target="_blank">www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/permanent/dutch_cabinets.html</a></span><br>
<br><br><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28189971&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/permanent/hammer_collection.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28189971" target="_blank"><i><b>The Armand Hammer Collection: Master Drawings</b></i></a></span>
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<a href="http://www.mmsend56.com/link.cfm?r=1181903995&sid=28189972&m=3116179&u=NGart&j=15784945&s=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/permanent/hammer_collection.html?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=28189972" target="_blank"><img src="http://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/NGart/2013_11_27_Exhibitions3.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="200" hspace="10" width="200"></a><span style="vertical-align:bottom;font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-weight:normal">The
Armand Hammer collection of old master and modern drawings consists of
more than 50 works by some of the great draftsmen of all time, from
Leonardo and Raphael to Van Gogh and Picasso. With works spanning more
than five centuries—from about 1470 to 1940—the collection features a
remarkable range of studies and finished compositions drawn in a variety
of styles and techniques.
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<br>Since their arrival at the National Gallery of Art in 1986, the
drawings have been shown in a nearly continuous series of small
exhibitions on a variety of themes. To avoid overexposure to light,
which can damage the paper and the media, the selection of drawings is
changed every six months.
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