2008年3月16日 星期日

Amazing Rare Things:The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace 2008


The Royal Collection © 2006, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace is a permanent space dedicated to changing exhibitions of items from the Royal Collection, the wide-ranging collection of art and treasures held in trust by The Queen for the Nation. Constructed forty years ago on the west front of Buckingham Palace out of the bomb-damaged ruins of the former private chapel, the Gallery has recently been redeveloped. It was reopened by The Queen on
21 May 2002 and is now open to the public on a daily basis.

白金漢宮自然歷史畫展 達文西珍貴畫作在列

包括十五世紀文藝復興時期偉大畫家達文西等四位知名藝術家所創作,英國王室珍藏的一百三十幅以自然歷史為主題的珍貴畫作,今天起在白金漢宮女王畫廊展出,帶領參觀者一睹十五世紀末到十七世紀自然生物演進的歷史。

畫展策劃人之一,資深博物館專家克雷頓告訴中央社記者,王室珍藏的達文西畫作約有六百多幅,這次特別挑出其中十八幅,畫作中充分展現這位曠世奇才不僅是傑出的藝術家,更是了不起的科學家,他對生物的深刻觀察與描繪,以及非常人所及的想像力,相信能讓參觀者大開眼界。

達文西畫作中一幅名為「貓群、獅群與一條龍」,是十五世紀西方繪畫史上極少數出現龍的形象,另一幅對熊腳的透視解剖,不僅有肌肉、骨骼還有筋絡組織,極為細膩,令人讚嘆;他筆下的黑莓樹更有躍然紙上的生動。

克雷頓指出,其它展出的還有英國十七世紀畫家馬歇爾獨特的花卉畫作,婀娜多姿的各式花卉,在馬歇爾筆下,展現迷人的風采;另一位十七世紀畫家瑪麗安除了喜歡花卉題材,對動物也十分著迷,一幅鱷魚與蛇糾纏互鬥的作品,色彩鮮明,生動充滿生命力。

另一位英國畫家凱茲比,曾遠赴美洲大陸觀察自然生態,探尋「新世界」,一幅白頭老鷹自空中飛向河流叼食躍起的魚,勾勒大自然的食物鏈,及弱肉強食的法則。

這項名為「令人驚嘆的罕見生物」展,特別邀請英國知名生物學家,同時也是電視名主持人艾坦勃勞參與策劃。

他說,四位畫家的共通點,就是可以從他們的畫作中深刻感受到他們觀察自然生物的喜悅,那種投入即使到了二十一世紀的今天,仍能延續不變。

這項展覽將一直進行到九月二十八日。三月二十一日配合復活節休館。


Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery

Alexander Marshall, Anemone (detail), c.1650-82

The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace

14 March – 28 September 2008


The Scotsman ***** 'an imaginative projection into the world around us'

This extraordinary exhibition, recently shown in Edinburgh at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, has been selected from the collections of the Royal Library by curators of the Royal Collection in collaboration with the distinguished naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. It brings together the works of four artists and a collector who have shaped our knowledge of the world around us.

Mark Catesby, Great hogfish, c.1725

Leonardo da Vinci, Cats, lions and a dragon (detail), c.1513-16 Leonardo da Vinci, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian and Mark Catesby are diverse figures who shared a passion for enquiry and a fascination with the beautiful and bizarre in nature. All lived at a time when new species were being discovered around the world in ever increasing numbers. Many of the plants and animals represented in the exhibition were then barely known in Europe. Today some are commonplace, others are now extinct.

There is a common denominator that links all these artists. It is the profound joy that all feel who observe the natural world with a sustained and devoted intensity.

Sir David Attenborough

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Attributed to Vincenzo Leonardi, Head of a white stork, c.1630-40

Maria Sibylla Merian, Common or ‘spectacled’  caiman and South American false coral snake


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