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The theme for the National Gallery's 2002 diary is the subject of faces.aces are everywhere in the National Gallery's collection, in portraits andithin narrative scenes and paintings of everyday life. Each weekly spread isllustrated in full colour, focusing on a single face within a paintingGhirlandaio's gentle and innocent "Portrait of a Girl", for instance, orurer's sensitive and dignified "The Painter's Father") or on a group ofaces taken from several paintings and themed by subject.;Amongst the manyubjects covered in the book are children from different centuries,elf-portraits of artists, old age and famous historical figures. Individualacial features are also shown: a succession of profiles from wide varyingaintings is revealing, contrasting noses of all shapes and sizes, and aequence of eloquent and expressive eyes communicates a surprising variety ofmotions.;The diary also gives the dates of all the National Galleryxhibitions as well as national and international holidays, religiousolidays and astronomical information.National Gallery London: Diary 2002 - Faces, with ISBN 9780711217454 and ISBN 0711217459.
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