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Award-winning art gallery and 'Capability' Brown parkland in Warwickshire. Welcoming all to see our six permanent collections and diverse, changing exhibitions.
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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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🐕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?
📷 by John Cleary Photography/Jamie Woodley

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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

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'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

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🎉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

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Unfortunately, due to travel limitations, Alice Kettle and Lesley Millar are no longer able to join us at our Textile Fair tomorrow. Their book 'The Erotic Cloth: Seduction and Fetishism in Textiles' will still be available to purchase in our Gift Shop.

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Joining us next Saturday, on the first day of our Textile Fair are 'The Erotic Cloth' co- editors Alice Kettle and Lesley Millar. Pick up a copy of the book in our gift shop and join them both in our Women's Library for a book signing session (1pm - 3pm) https://t.co/G8KqKWh7BQ

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On Sun 25 Aug you can listen live on to Prom 49, inspired by 'The Lost Words'. The book by also inspired our 2017 exhibition of the same name, which is still on tour! Catch it at from Sat 19 Oct until Sun 12 Jan
Otter ©

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