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Past Exhibitions
Sixties Stirling
Titanic
Scottish Salon
In Nepal
Dunmore Pottery
Space and Time
Stirling Girls
Pots and Paint
E.H. Shepard
Robert Burns
Miniature Print
Stirling Childhood
John Paterson
Henry Morley
Ronald Forbes
William Wallace
Japanese Art
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Programmes for adults and children include art exhibitions, events, workshops and school education service.
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Tues-Sat 10.30-5 and Sundays 2-5.
Admission is free.
Disabled access and facilities
Cafe serves lunches, snacks, teas and coffees with home baking and is open
daily to 4.30pm.
The friends of the Smith offer guided tours every Wednesday afternoon to
groups and individuals and at other times by arrangement.
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SEE Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions at the
Smith Art Gallery and Museum
The Stirling Smith is proud to create and host a wide variety of different exhibitions every year, showcasing many different disciplines including fine art, social history, cultural history and other subjects of local and national interest.
In recent years we have presented exhibitions focusing on subjects ranging from the history of golf to the Titanic. Others have dealt with the lives of illustrious figures of Scottish history such as George Buchanan and Sir William Wallace, and celebrated the work of artists from all over the world. There are always new and exciting things to see in our galleries.
An Exhibition to Celebrate the Sixtieth Birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales
An Exhibition to Celebrate the Sixtieth Birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales
Graciously loaned by Her Majesty The Queen
To celebrate the 60th birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales on 14 November 2008, ten of the Royal Collection's finest drawings by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) will travel to museums and galleries across the United Kingdom in 2008-9. The exhibition will visit The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum in Stirling from 8th August to 2nd November 2008.
The Royal Collection contains the world's most important group of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. These delicate works are preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle and are among the greatest treasures of the Collection. Leonardo's drawings are the richest, most wide-ranging, technically brilliant and endlessly fascinating of any artist, and this exhibition has been selected to demonstrate the extraordinary scope of his interests. It includes studies for painting, sculpture and architecture; a beautiful portrait of a young woman and a caricature of a grotesque old man; two exquisite studies of a dissected human skull and two of plants; a drawing of an arsenal, probably intended for a treatise on warfare; a highly accurate map of the river Arno, surveyed by Leonardo himself; a design for a dragon costume and an apocalyptic image of a deluge. The drawings demonstrate all the techniques and materials that Leonardo routinely used - metalpoint, pen and ink, brush and ink, watercolour, and red and black chalks.
Leonardo da Vinci was the archetypal 'Renaissance man', accomplished in painting, sculpture, architecture, music, anatomy, engineering, cartography, geology and botany. Yet beyond a handful of paintings, most of his great projects were never completed. His surviving drawings are therefore our main source of knowledge of his extraordinary achievements. According to Martin Clayton, Deputy Curator of the Print Room at Windsor Castle and author of several books about Leonardo, 'we can often grasp the true nature of Leonardo's intentions only through his drawings'.
This important display features for the first time in the Smith's history, an interpretation of the history of Stirling, told using artefacts from the Smith collections. It has been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and sponsorship from Scottish Amicable.
Allow at least 1 hour for browsing as the exhibition is full of detail. A variety of quizzes & games are provided for children.
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