September 25 – November 27 2025

Portraits, piety, the classical world – it is the great celebratory themes which dominate our perception of the history of art, but the artist’s familiar world, both personal and social, filters in around the edges, creating vivid images of contemporary experience. Certain themes, like feasting and friendship, are constant over the centuries, but we will also see medieval cock-fighting, the street scenes of Rembrandt and Velasquez, self-portraits, domestic gardens in the 19^th century and hamburgers in the 20^th!