PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TOURS
MORNING TOURS: 10 AM – 1 PM
AFTERNOON TOURS: 2-5 PM
MAXIMUM GROUPS OF 5
Duration: 3 hours including time for a coffee break
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM AND CHRIST CHURCH PICTURE GALLERY TOUR: EXPRESS JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART
- Join Natasha on a journey through European history of art in Europe, from Ancient Greece and Rome to French Impressionism and Picasso in the 20th century, at Oxford’s two major art collections.
- You’ll be introduced to the history of both galleries and their collections.
- Coffee break half way through tour
Cost: £180 per group, including entry fee to Christ Church Picture gallery
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM AND CHRIST CHURCH PICTURE GALLERY TOUR:THE RENAISSANCE, PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER
- Join Natasha on an in depth focus tour of the Ashmolean Renaissance Room
- Followed by visit to the principally Italian collection of old master paintings at Christ Church Picture Gallery
- See a selection of old master drawings at Christ Church from the college’s internationally renowned collection is always on view.
- You’ll be introduced to the history of Christ Church college’s picture collection, unique amongst Oxford and Cambridge colleges.
- Coffee break half way through tour
Cost: £180 per group, including entry fee to Christ Church Picture Gallery
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM: GRAND TOUR THROUGH THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN ART, FROM ANCIENT GREEK ART TO PICASSO
Join Natasha on a journey through European history of art in Europe, from Ancient Greece and Rome to French Impressionism and Picasso in the 20th century
Cost: £180 per group
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM: THEMED AND FOCUS TOURS
- The 17th Century: The Baroque in Europe and the Dutch Golden Age
- The 19th Century in France and England: The Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites
- The Evolution of Landscape and Portraiture in European painting
- Noble Themes: Religion and Mythology in Art
Cost: £180 per group
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS: ANSELM KIEFER EARLY WORKS 14 FEB TO 15 JUNE 2025
- The German artist Anselm Kiefer dominated the Neo Expressionist movement of the 1980s, in which young artists went back to portraying the human body and the recognizable, in reaction to the remote and intellectualized abstract art production of the 1970s.
- Coffee break following visit
Cost: £180 per group plus entry fee to exhibition (£15.30 standard fee)
CHRIST CHURCH PICTURE GALLERY: MASTERPIECES OF PAINTING AND DRAWING
- This visit will focus on masterpieces at Christ Church Picture Gallery, one of Oxford’s most famous colleges, by such major artists as Fra Angelico, Annibale Carracci and Jacopo Tintoretto.
- There will be an introduction to the history of Christ Church college’s picture collection, unique amongst Oxford and Cambridge colleges.
- Coffee break following visit
Cost: £180 per group including entrance fee
- VISIT TO BLENHEIM PALACE, WOODSTOCK:ART FOCUSED TOUR
- We will view great works in both the state rooms private apartments, ranging from Fantin Latour to George Stubbs, and explore their collecting history, connection to the Marlborough family and how they came to be at Blenheim.
- A background history given of Blenheim Palace, the Marlborough family and Winston Churchill.
- Coffee break half way through visit
£180 per group plus entry fee to Blenheim
PRIVATE TOURS BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
VISITS TO OXFORD COLLEGES, CHAPELS AND CHURCHES:
PRE RAPHAELITE AND GOTHIC REVIVAL TOURS
- Exeter College to see The Adoration of the Magi tapestry by Edward Burne Jones
- Keble College for William Holman Hunt’s painting, Light of the World
- St. Mary’s University Church for Augustus Pugin’s stained glass window
- Christ Church Cathedral for the stained glass window by Edward Burne Jones.
- We will close the tour with a visit to the Ashmolean Museum.
- Coffee break half way through visit
£180 per group plus entry fees
- VISIT TO NEW COLLEGE AND ST. JOHN’S COLLEGES AND THEIR ART COLLECTIONS
- We will view the painting St James the Lesser by El Greco at New College and St. John’s to see the college’s painting collection including Anne of Cleves by Bartolomaeus Bruyn the elder and further works by Jan Brueghel the elder, Bartolomeo Neroni, Abel Grimmer, Jan van Scorel, Bartholomaeus Bruyn the elder and Cornelius de Zeeuw.
- Coffee break half way through tour
Cost: £180 per group plus entry fees
VISITS TO THE WESTERN ART PRINT ROOM, ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
MASTER DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS
- View drawings by Michelangelo, watercolours by J.M.W. Turner, and etchings by Rembrandt amongst other masterpieces on paper
- Coffee break following visit
£180 per group
THE GENIUS OF PRINTMAKING: HISTORY AND TECHNIQUES
- We will explore the history of printmaking through examiningwoodcuts and engravings by Albrecht Dürer, etchings by Rembrandt and aquatints by Francisco de Goya
- Coffee break following visit
£180 per group
VISIT TO CHRIST CHURCH PICTURE GALLERY, WORKS ON PAPER COLLECTION
MASTER DRAWINGS
- View drawings by the masters Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Rubens amongst others.
- Introduction to the history of Christ Church’s internationally renowned collection of 300 works
- Coffee break following visit
£180 per group
BESPOKE TOURS
Contact Natasha for bespoke tours, tailored to your particular interests.
SATURDAY PUBLIC TOURS
MORNINGS 10 AM – 1 PM
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM AND CHRIST CHURCH PICTURE GALLERY TOUR: EXPRESS JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART
- Join Natasha on a journey through European history of art in Europe, from Ancient Greece and Rome to French Impressionism and Picasso in the 20th century, at Oxford’s two major art collections.
- You’ll be introduced to the history of both galleries and their collections.
- Coffee break half way through tour
- Cost: £40 per person
- Minimum: 2 people