THE WILTON DIPTYCH: OBJECT IN FOCUS TALK

NATIONAL TREASURES

Wed 5 Jun 2024, 2–3pm
At the Museum and Online

The in-person event takes place in the Headley Lecture Theatre and the online event via Zoom

Booking is essential

With Professor Jennifer Sliwka

The Ashmolean is proud to be a partner venue for the National Treasures displays in 2024 and is showcasing the Wilton Diptych in the England: 400-1600 Gallery over the summer from 10 May. As part of its 200th birthday celebrations, the National Gallery is loaning 12 paintings to venues around the UK.

Join this object-in-focus talk to hear about the symbolism and history of the Wilton Diptych, painted about 1395-9 and made for Richard II, King of England from 1377 to 1399.

The small, portable devotional artwork is one of a handful of English panel paintings to have survived from the Middle Ages.
 

The 14th-century painting known as the Wilton Diptych showing King Richard II presented to the Virgin and Child by his Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and Edmund

The Wilton Diptych: English or French, painted about 1395-9, egg on oak, 53 × 37 cm © The National Gallery, London

BOOKING

Tickets for both the in-person and online talk are £8 each.

The in-person talk takes place in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom

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If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk