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Paula Rego : Crivelli's garden / Priyesh Mistry, with a short story by Chloe Aridjis.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : National Gallery Company ; Yale University Press, 2023.Description: 63 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9781857096965
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Contents:
Director's foreword / Gabriele Finaldi
Preface / Nick Willing
Changing the story: Paula Rego and the National Gallery / Priyesh Mistry
In the citadel / Chloe Aridjis
Summary: Explore the relationship between Dame Paula Rego’s monumental painting and the 15th-century altarpiece and National Gallery staff that inspired it. Thirty years ago, Dame Paula Rego (1935–2022), our first Associate Artist (1990–2), was commissioned to create a mural for the then new Sainsbury Wing Dining Room. The result, Rego’s ‘Crivelli’s Garden’, took its inspiration from an altarpiece by the 15th-century Italian artist Carlo Crivelli, ‘La Madonna della Rondine (The Madonna of the Swallow)’ painted after 1490 to tell the story of women from biblical history and folklore based on paintings in the collection and stories from the Golden Legend. Figures including the Virgin Mary, Saint Catherine, Mary Magdalene and Delilah find themselves in the maze of Crivelli’s re-imagined garden surrounded by Portuguese blue and white tiled walls.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, 20 July - 29 October 2023.

Includes bibliographical references (p.62).

Director's foreword / Gabriele Finaldi

Preface / Nick Willing

Changing the story: Paula Rego and the National Gallery / Priyesh Mistry

In the citadel / Chloe Aridjis

Explore the relationship between Dame Paula Rego’s monumental painting and the 15th-century altarpiece and National Gallery staff that inspired it. Thirty years ago, Dame Paula Rego (1935–2022), our first Associate Artist (1990–2), was commissioned to create a mural for the then new Sainsbury Wing Dining Room. The result, Rego’s ‘Crivelli’s Garden’, took its inspiration from an altarpiece by the 15th-century Italian artist Carlo Crivelli, ‘La Madonna della Rondine (The Madonna of the Swallow)’ painted after 1490 to tell the story of women from biblical history and folklore based on paintings in the collection and stories from the Golden Legend. Figures including the Virgin Mary, Saint Catherine, Mary Magdalene and Delilah find themselves in the maze of Crivelli’s re-imagined garden surrounded by Portuguese blue and white tiled walls.