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This still life painting by Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo, from our Naples collection is one of a pair that was designed to be hung over interior doors. The landscape in the background is a typical Neapolitan invention. Can you spot Mount Vesuvius?
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"Release the Kraken!"
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🐕EASTER TRAIL🐕
Greyhound racing was very popular in Victorian times. The Greyhound from our Folk Art Collection is stretching his legs on the west lawn. Can you find him? #digitalcomptonverney #eastertrail #spottheanimal
📷 by John Cleary Photography/Jamie Woodley
This dove - shaped bronze finial is on display in our Chinese Collection. During the Han dynasty, men who reached the age of 70 would be awarded a wangzhang, or king’s staff, topped a dove as a symbol of their wisdom #digitalcomptonverney #museumsathome
Have you ever looked at this painting from our Naples Collection and wondered how Mary's robes look so blue? They are painted in Ultramarine, a pigment made from Lapis Lazuli. It was extremely expensive and so was reserved for the most important saints #digitalcomptonverney
🎨 STONE AGE CAVE PAINTING 🎨
Today, Emma's showing us how to mix paint from things you might find in the garden and how to use them to make a Stone Age Cave Painting. Visit our website for more resources 👉 https://t.co/0PK7ZO2Rb2 #digitalcomptonverney
'This show is one temptation that should not be resisted'
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A fantastic review of 'Cranach: Artist & Innovator' in The Telegraph. Read the review 👉 https://t.co/FvZXdLkVpW and see the exhibition here until Sat 14 Jun https://t.co/SeUywitFPo #cranachartistandinnovator
🎉Happy 250th Birthday to Daniel Lambert🎉
Born on this day in 1770, he was famous in the late Georgian era for being the 'fattest man in Britain'. See this portrait on display in our British Folk Art Collection
© Compton Verney 📷 by Hugh Kelly
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🚨 CURATOR'S TOUR & TEA - LAST FEW TICKETS REMAINING 🚨
Take a guided tour of our spring exhibitions with curator, Dr Amy Orrock, followed by an informal chat over tea & cake. BOOK NOW online https://t.co/sJ1SaTH2dl #comptonverney #visitwarwickshire #curatorstour #exhibitiontour
To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay we'd like to introduce you to Georgiana Verney, Lady Willoughby de Broke (1824-1889). A champion of women's rights and adult education, along side a number of other causes, we believe that our Women's Library was once hers #comptonverney