Events

The next Gallery talk will be on Wednesday 8 October at 11.30am when the subject will be the painting Annunciation by Procaccini. Who was Giulio Cesare Procaccini? Why does his small-scale Annunciation in York Art Gallery deserve our special attention? Amanda Hilliam, art historian and Friends’ committee member, will explore the technique, function and significance […]

*** This tour is fully booked *** The Group will meet at Harewood House at 1.20 (self-transport) for a tour conducted by two members of the curating team from the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of University of York: Dr Richard Johns, an expert on Turner, and Professor Chloe Wigston-Smith, currently Director of […]

Eleanor Jackson, the new Curator of Fine Art at York Art Gallery, acquired an illuminated manuscript for the British Library that was made in York around 1300. She subsequently identified the original owners: Robert and Margery de Percy of Bolton Percy near York. She will talk about this process, and about the manuscript’s wider significance. […]