Name: An ode to age
Start: 2025-05-16T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-05-16T20:30:00+00:00
Location: 六合彩预测

An ode to age

Part of the 'Into the collection' series

Friday, 16 May 2025

Tour times

6 - 7 pm
7.30 - 8.30 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Members

About

Every year marks another journey around the sun and our most recent journey saw the 六合彩预测 turn 200. For this collection tour, expert guide, Muriel Carr茅, celebrates this venerable age by looking at a selection of paintings from another angle.

Far from focusing on youth only, many artists have explored the theme of old age and ageing in a myriad ways: venerable figures from the Old Testament, beautiful portraits of patriarchs and matriarchs, still lifes evoking the passage of time, grotesque caricatures mocking the folly of those who desperately cling to their youth, mighty bearded gods鈥� This tour will also be an exploration of the changing style of some of our greatest artists, from youth to maturity.

This is a guided walking tour through the collection for which headsets will be provided. Please meet at the Information Desk in the Sainsbury Wing Foyer.

This tour repeats on Thursday, 10 July 2025 at 10.15am and 11.45am

Image: Quinten Massys, 'An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess')', about 1513 © 六合彩预测, London

Your host

Muriel Carr茅 is an award-winning guide specialising in art and architecture. Muriel studied English Literature and History at Universit茅 Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, followed by a Master's degree in Art History at Christie's, London. Alongside teaching English Literature in France and abroad, Muriel has worked for a contemporary art online magazine in Madrid. Muriel now leads tours in English and French in all the major London museums and historic houses.