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If you missed our curator's introduction to Vermeer Visits, we've now shared it on our YouTube channel so you can watch it back any time you like. It's captioned and ISL interpreted. 🎞️youtu.be/TJUs7sn7sSk Vermeer Visits is proudly supported by the Friends of the Gallery.

So glad I got to see the ambitious and unexpectedly moving #TurningHeads exhibition National Gallery of Ireland before it finishes next weekend. All humanity is on show here, in its beauty, intensity and frivolity. Some favourites here:

Join me online on Tuesday 28 May to discuss Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring at Cambridge University Library’s Really Popular Book Club. There’s still time to get reading! lib.cam.ac.uk/bookclub

Today in National Gallery of Ireland’s brilliant Turning Heads exhibition, I saw so many old favourites ‘in the flesh’ including this exuberant smoker & the work of someone new to me - Michaelina Wautier (d. 1689) - for the first time. 4 days left! If in Dublin, go if you can.

HNA conference 2024: Registration for the conference and (limited availability) accommodation at Kings College closes June 20; workshop registration closes June 30. see all conference information and registration information on the website: hnanews.org/hna-conference/

1 week left to sign up for HNA 2024! We have a brilliant programme of workshops in London and Cambridge, 40 Sessions, a roundtable, and receptions at the Fitzwilliam Museum and King’s College over 10–13 July. Register your place here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/hna-conferen…

A research project between the National Gallery of Ireland and the Mauritshuis has used conservation, art-historical and scientific analysis to confirm the status of a painting in the Dublin collection as a fragment from an ambitious composition by Paulus Potter. ➡️ bit.ly/tbmJuly

Paulus Potter also painted grand mythological scenes! So we discovered while studying our Head of a White Bull National Gallery of Ireland, now firmly attributed to the artist, and identified as a fragment of the Abduction of Europa. Find out more in the Burlington Magazine.

Spectacular surrounds and in the best company – one of the highlights of our HNA 2024 Conference hnanews

In her essay “Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale”, Dr Lizzie Marx follows a “whale-trail” across history to discover the olfactory paradoxes of the Dutch Golden Age: publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturin…

Today I saw Rembrandt’s 1635-37 drawings of women teaching babies to walk at British Museum. They’re some of my favourite depictions of pudding caps! You can really feel the tenderness and care. I also fell in love with Adriaen van Ostade’s 1672 depiction of a woman sewing

HNA announces the 2024-25 Mentorship program. Applications due 20th September! hnanews.org/call-for-appli…

Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art will be on at Toledo Museum of Art in Spring 2025, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in Fall 2025. Pictured: Installation view of Ruysch's Vase of Flowers with an Ear of Corn, held at the National Gallery of Ireland. Read about it in Lizzie Marx's guest post, artherstory.net/rachel-ruyschs…

Rachel Ruysch on tour 🙌🏻 Dr Lizzie Marx