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Criticks Reviews: Fine and Decorative Art

Catherine the Great: An Enlightened Empress

Catherine the Great: An Enlightened Empress

Edinburgh plays host to the Hermitage and its formidable Empress, to dazzling effect.

Event Date(s): 10th Sep 2012

Location: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Reviewed by: Freya Gowrley

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Charles-Joseph Natoire: Le dessin à l’origine de la création artistique

Charles-Joseph Natoire: Le dessin à l’origine de la création artistique

Nîmes celebrates Natoire, its master draughtsman.

Event Date(s): 6th Sep 2012

Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes

Reviewed by: Cédric Augé and Laurent Langlade

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A Will of Their Own: Judith Sargent Murray and Women of Achievement in the Early Republic

A Will of Their Own: Judith Sargent Murray and Women of Achievement in the Early Republic

A pantheon presenting the female face of the Early American Republic.

Event Date(s): 3rd Aug 2012

Location: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

Reviewed by: Linda Troost

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Physionotraces: galerie de portraits, de la Révolution à l’Empire

Physionotraces: galerie de portraits, de la Révolution à l’Empire

A diminutive yet potent display tracing the development of a revolutionary form of portraiture.

Event Date(s): 2nd Jul 2012

Location: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Reviewed by: Dr Kate Grandjouan

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Playing, Learning, Flirting: Printed Board Games from Eighteenth-Century France

Playing, Learning, Flirting: Printed Board Games from Eighteenth-Century France

The long eighteenth century, as told via the revealing medium of the board game.

Event Date(s): 19th Jul 2012

Location: Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury

Reviewed by: Jennifer Thorp

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Pieces of Wedgwood

Pieces of Wedgwood

A compact but illuminating reminder of Wedgwood’s Australian connection.

Event Date(s): 10th Jul 2012

Location: State Library of New South Wales, Sydney

Reviewed by: Mark de Vitis

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Jane Austen’s Bookshop – An Exhibition

Jane Austen’s Bookshop – An Exhibition

Chawton House charms with an exhibition that brings the thriving network of eighteenth-century regional print culture back to life.

Event Date(s): 26th Jun 2012

Location: Chawton House Library, Alton, Hampshire

Reviewed by: Judyta Frodyma

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The English Prize: The Capture of the Westmorland

The English Prize: The Capture of the Westmorland

This exciting exhibition about a defining event in Grand Tour history delivers the treasures of thorough archival research.

Event Date(s): 27th Jun 2012

Location: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Reviewed by: Carly Collier

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1740, un Abrégé du Monde

1740, un Abrégé du Monde

This perfectly formed exhibition captures the essence of how knowledge was visualised in the age of the encyclopaedia.

Event Date(s): 14th Jun 2012

Location: Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), Galerie Colbert, Paris

Reviewed by: Valérie Kobi

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Luoghi Comuni

Luoghi Comuni

A subtle exhibition showing Rome and its many faces, as city and myth.

Event Date(s): 27th May 2012

Location: Museo di Roma

Reviewed by: Hannah Malone

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