This section of the website offers an overview of upcoming exhibitions relevant to the field of court studies. The information will also be published in The Court Historian.

Exhibitions

Amsterdam, Hermitage Museum, Rubens and his Time, until 16 March 2012.

Belfast, Ulster Museum, The Queen: Art and Image, 14 October 2011 to 15 January 2012.

Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Art and Design for All: the Victoria and Albert Museum, until 2 January 2012.

Bordeaux, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Napoleon the Third and Eugénie at Fontainebleau: the Art of Living in the Second Empire, 9 December 2011 to 5 March 2012.

Cardiff, National Museum, The Queen: Art and Image, 4 February 2012 to 29 April 2012.

Compiègne, Palace of, Stanislas II Auguste, 8 April to 18 July 2011.

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Cleopatra’s World, 29 April to 7 August 2011.

Edinburgh, National Gallery Complex, The Queen: Art and Image, 25 June to 18 September 2011.

Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities, 24 September 2011 to 22 January 2012. Masterpieces by Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Paolo Uccello and Donatello show how and why the modern banking system developed along the most important artistic flowering in the history of the Western world. To be reviewed.

Genoa, Museo dell’Accademia Lingustica di Belle Arti, Italy United: from Risorgimento to the New Century, 4 March 2011 to 8 January 2012.

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Tutankhamun: the Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, 13 October 2011 to 15 April 2012.

London, British Museum, Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, 23 June to 9 October 2011.

London, National Gallery, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, 9 November 2011 to 5 February 2012. To be reviewed.

London, National Portrait Gallery, The Queen: Art and Image, 17 May 2012 to 21 October 2012.

London, Tate Britain, Rubens and Britain, 21 November 2011 to 6 May 2012. This exhibition will focus attention on the works that Sir Peter Paul Rubens produced during his short visit to England in 1629-30.  It will also reassess Rubens’s numerous links with British clients and friends in the context of recent scholarship.

London, The Queen’s Gallery, Treasures from the Royal Collection, 15 April 2011 to 15 April 2012.

London, Victoria & Albert Museum, The Golden Age of the English Court, from Henry VIII to William III, March to July 2013.

London, Victoria & Albert Museum, William Kent, 2014. Kent was Inspector of Paintings and later Portrait Painter to George II — who never sat to him — and much involved in the redecoration of the royal apartments.

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Paris: Life and Luxury, until 7 August 2011.

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Fashion in the Middle Ages, until 21 August 2011.

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy, 8 May to 31 July 2011.

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Gifts of the Sultan: the Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, 5 June to 5 September 2011.

Miami, Frost Art Museum-Florida International University, Kongo Kingdom Art and its Cultural Heritage, 12 October to 31 December 2011.

Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City, until 11 September 2011.

Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (MBAM), The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army, until 26 June 2011.

Moscow, Kremlin Armouries Museum, The Golden Age of the English Court, from Henry VIII to William III, October 2012 to February 2013.

New York, Museum for African Art, Dynasty and Divinity: Ifé Art in Ancient Nigeria, 11 November 2011 to 8 April 2012.

Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Richelieu at Richelieu, 12 March to 13 June 2011.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, From Heracles to Alexander: New Discoveries from Aegae, the Royal Capital of the Kingdom of Macedon, 7 April to 29 August 2011.

Paris, Galerie des Gobelins, Simon Vouet: Golden Age of French Tapestries of Louis XIII, 7 April to 10 July 2011.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, In the Kingdom of Alexander the Great: Ancient Macedonia, 6 October to January 2012.

Paris, Musée du Moyen Age. Thermes de Cluny, Gaston Fébus (1331-91), 28 November 2011 to 5 March 2012. Gaston Fébus was one of the last sovereign princes of Foix, a marshal of France, and an ancestor of King Henri IV.

Paris, Musée Guimet, Captured Hearts: The Lure of Courtly Lucknow, until 18 July 2011.

San Francisco, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Maharaja: the Splendour of India’s Royal Courts, 21 October 2011 to 8 April 2012.

Speyer, Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer, The Salian Dynasty: Power in Transition, 10 April to 30 October 2011. In honour of the Salian Year of 2011 (900 years since the coronation of Emperor Henry V), the exhibition will describe the world of the later Salians, their construction of the Cathedral, and their conflict with the papacy. Numerous celebrations and events, artistic activities, concerts, readings and performances will complement the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the Palatinate.

Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Celebrations for the Centenary of the Republic of China, until 18 September 2011.

The Hague, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Imperial Porcelain, 16 April to 30 October 2011.

Vienna, Albertina, Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) and the Art of his Time, 16 September 2011 to 29 January 2012.

Washington DC, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, The Empress Dowager, until 29 January 2012.

Welbeck, Harley Gallery, Dinner with a Duke: Decoding Food and Drink at Welbeck 1690-1910, until February 2012. The silver of the dukes of Portland, including fountains made for the founder of their fortunes, William, Prince of Orange, in 1680.