Programs News Release: 20 September 1999

Related Activities for "The Drawings of Annibale Carracci" National Gallery of Art, 26 September 1999 - 9 January 2000

Gallery Talks
Tours led by staff lecturers take visitors through the exhibition The Drawings of Annibale Carracci. All groups meet in the Rotunda of the West Building.

9 and 30 November at noon
17 and 25 November at 2:00 p.m.
5, 8, and 10 December at noon

Tours of the Exhibition
Tours by Special Appointment: for adult groups of twenty or more, call (202) 842-6247.

Catalogue
The Drawings of Annibale Carracci presents new scholarly research in the study of the artist's drawings and is written by an international team of Carracci experts, including Daniele Benati of the University of Udine; Gail Feigenbaum of the New Orleans Museum of Art; Kate Ganz, an independent scholar who first conceived the idea for the exhibition; Catherine Loisel Legrand of the Louvre; and Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken of the Teylers Museum. The introductory essay was written by Diane De Grazia of the Cleveland Museum of Art. A softcover catalogue is available for $39.95 in the Gallery Shops call (800) 697-9350 or (301) 322-5900.

Sponsor/Organization
The exhibition is made possible by Republic National Bank of New York, and Safra Republic Holdings S.A., Luxembourg.

Additional support has been provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and The Circle of the National Gallery of Art. The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. It is also supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

General Information

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden are at all times free to the public. They are located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, and are open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Gallery is closed on December 25 and January 1. For information call (202) 737-4215 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (202) 842-6176, or visit the Gallery's Web site at www.nga.gov.

Visitors will be asked to present all carried items for inspection upon entering the East and West Buildings. Checkrooms are free of charge and located at each entrance. Luggage and other oversized bags must be presented at the 4th Street entrances to the East or West Building to permit x-ray screening and must be deposited in the checkrooms at those entrances. For the safety of visitors and the works of art, nothing may be carried into the Gallery on a visitor's back. Any bag or other items that cannot be carried reasonably and safely in some other manner must be left in the checkrooms. Items larger than 17 x 26 inches cannot be accepted by the Gallery or its checkrooms.

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Press Office
National Gallery of Art
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Landover, MD 20785
phone: (202) 842-6353 e-mail: pressinfo@nga.gov

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