Weekends Summer 2024

The Wilton Diptych at the Ashmolean

Whilst you’re in the Ashmolean you could also pay a visit to Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings . This major exhibition presents drawings from many of the Flemish masters, rarely seen in public. Marvel at works by Pieter Bruegel, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacques Jordaens and gain insights into their visual thought processes and how they honed their skills throughout their careers. The Wilton Diptych will be in Gallery 41 of the Ashmolean from 10th May 2024 – 1st September 2024. Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings will be at the Ashmolean until 23rd June 2024.

As part of its 200th birthday celebrations the National Gallery is loaning 12 of its most famous paintings to venues around the UK, with all of the displays opening on 10th May. The Ashmolean is lucky enough to be the temporary home of the Wilton Diptych, a remarkable altarpiece painted in the 1390s for Richard II. The small, portable, diptych is one of a handful of English panel paintings to have survived from the Middle Ages and combines religious and secular imagery to embody Richard II’s personal conception of kingship.

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