Raphael is unquestionably one of the greatest artists in history, but his paintings have, at times, been described as a little unimaginative due to their strict formalist design. In contrast, the ...
The Ashmolean’s show presents a ‘mix of the wonderful, the weird and the downright wacky’ of the plant world ...
The Ashmolean in Oxford – the oldest public museum in Britain – has, after a £61m overhaul, been transformed from a much-loved if slightly dusty institution into a spectacular, light-filled modern ...
Watercolors, Nikolaus Pevsner explained in his 1964 lecture “The Englishness of English Art,” enjoy in Britain a status “never equalled in any other country.” The reason, Pevsner suggested, is that ...
A new show at the Ashmolean Museum, “This Is What You Get,” celebrates the band’s visual art for their albums and related materials. They have collaborated with artist Stanley Donwood on every album ...
"You cannot stand in front of this case and not feel your heart beat faster – it is astonishing," said Jon Whiteley, starry-eyed in front of a magnificent 298-year-old violin called the Alard on ...
The Ashmolean – the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology – was founded by Elias Ashmole in 1683, when it became the world’s first public museum. If over three centuries of history ...
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. Not since ...
Right at the entrance to the Ashmolean's newly refurbished and expanded Egyptian galleries you know you are in a different place. There stand two giant statues of the fertility god Min, one holding ...
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