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Image: Lucas Samaras, Chair Transformation Number 20B, 1996, The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Fund, 1998.99.1Image: Pieter de Hooch, The Bedroom, 1658/1660, Widener Collection, 1942.9.33Image: Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1976, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 1977.76.1Image: Hans Baldung Grien, Madonna and Child, 1515/1517, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1999.101.1

Sunday, May 18
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
12:00PM
Gallery Talk: Why Fontainebleau?
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
1:00PM
Gallery Talk: In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
1:30PM
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
2:00PM
Lecture: The Carraccis' "Butcher Shop": Reforming the Nature of Painting
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
3:00PM
Gallery Talk: Picturing Fontainebleau
3:30PM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Guided Tour: Test event
4:00PM
Film: Regular Lovers
4:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
6:30PM
Concert: The Great Noise Ensemble

Monday, May 19
10:30AM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
12:00PM
Guided Tour: French
Gallery Talk: In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
12:10PM
Lecture: "Altdeutsche Kostbarkeiten": Notes on the Provenance of Rogier van der Weyden's "Portrait of a Lady"
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
1:10PM
Lecture: "Altdeutsche Kostbarkeiten": Notes on the Provenance of Rogier van der Weyden's "Portrait of a Lady"
1:30PM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
2:00PM
Guided Tour: French
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection

Tuesday, May 20
10:30AM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
12:00PM
Guided Tour: German
Film: The Incised Image
12:30PM
Guided Tour: Points of View: The Painter's Choices
1:00PM
Gallery Talk: In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
1:30PM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
2:00PM
Guided Tour: German
2:30PM
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection

Wednesday, May 21
10:30AM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
1:00PM
Gallery Talk: Art Brut: The Paintings of Jean Dubuffet
1:30PM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
2:00PM
Gallery Talk: Picture This: Modern Art
2:30PM
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection

Thursday, May 22
10:30AM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
12:00PM
Guided Tour: Japanese
Gallery Talk: In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet
12:30PM
Guided Tour: Points of View: The Painter's Choices
1:00PM
Gallery Talk: Cultivating Virtue: Flowers, Fruit, and Symbolic Plants in Renaissance Painting
1:30PM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
2:00PM
Guided Tour: Japanese
Gallery Talk: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books—Part 2
2:30PM
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection

Friday, May 23
10:30AM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
12:00PM
Guided Tour: American Art in Spanish
Lecture: Calotype Photography
12:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Garden
1:00PM
Gallery Talk: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books—Part 2
1:30PM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: Test event
2:30PM
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
3:30PM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
5:00PM
Jazz Programs: Alex Martin's Amérique Latine (Euro-Latin Jazz)

Saturday, May 24
10:30AM
Guided Tour: Early Italian to Early Modern: An Introduction to the West Building Collection
11:30AM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Galleries
Guided Tour: Test event
12:00PM
Guided Tour: German
Lecture: The Collodion Process
12:30PM
Guided Tour: Italian Renaissance Collection
1:30PM
Guided Tour: The Sculpture Garden
2:00PM
Guided Tour: German
Gallery Talk: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books—Part 2
Film: To Die at Thirty
2:30PM
Guided Tour: American Collection
3:30PM
Guided Tour: 1900 to Now: An Introduction to the East Building Collection
Guided Tour: French Collection: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Guided Tour: Test event
4:30PM
Film: Bed and Sofa


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