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The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, which holds the largest group of Raphael drawings in the world, is set to stage an exhibition of 125 drawings attributed to the Old Master, opening on June 1.
It’s “the greatest Old Master drawing in the world” — and we have it here in Oxford. The curators of the sublime Master Drawings exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum where this peerless ...
THE celebrations, arranged by Dr. R. T. Gunther, of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Old Ashmolean on May 21, 1683, brought together a large gathering, which included ...
“You might call it the best of the best of the best,” says An Van Camp, the Ashmolean Museum’s co ... Belgian government published a list of Old Master drawings considered to be the nation ...
Over the past months, unseen, like some ripening truffle, in the narrow space between Pusey Lane and St Giles in Oxford the new Ashmolean has ... In the old departmental arrangement it would ...
VOCAL as have been the protests against the emission of smoke and fumes from the chimneys of electric power stations in London, when one reads No. 8 of Old Ashmolean Reprints, the “Fumifugium ...
A painting once rejected as a lowly copy of the work of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may be the real thing after all, announced the Ashmolean ... tiny head studies of old men with forlorn ...
The collection at Oxford University's Ashmolean features 200 letters, many of them illustrated with cartoons. They were found in an "old chest of drawers" by Mrs Gaskell's great grand-daughter ...
The Ashmolean has been a world centre for the study ... paper formerly belonging to portrait painter Thomas Lawrence. His Old Master drawing collection was one of the greatest ever assembled ...