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Robert Dowling was Australia's first major colonial-trained professional artist. Within Australian art historical terms, this was a milestone of great significance. It may seem surprising, then, that the National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition Robert Dowling: Tasmanian son of Empire is the first retrospective of the artist's comprehensive body of work. This exhibition shows his portraits, including his portraits of pastoralists and their properties, portraits and compositions of Indigenous people, biblical subjects, social history subjects and his Oriental subjects.

Image: Robert Dowling with the painting 'Miss Robertson of Colac (Dolly)'

The National Gallery of Australia
Parkes Place - Parkes - Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Open daily from 10am–5pm (except Christmas Day).
There is no admission charge for the permanent collection. Admission charges may apply for temporary exhibition.

http://www.nga.gov.au/Home/index.cfm

What did Rome look like in Goethe's time? With the exhibition Piranesi, Rembrandt of the ruins Casa di Goethe gives again an insight into an ancient Rome that no longer exists - though still today we can re-exeperience some of the places. A special exhibition is dedicated to the outstanding engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). For the first time Germany's only museum abroad presents with Piranesis works an important part of its collection. The core of the exhibition provides for the selection of 35 early reprints from his monumental work Vedute di Roma.

Casa di Goethe
Via del Corso 18 (Piazza del Popolo)- Rome, Italy
Hours: daily from 10 am - 6 pm - Closed on Mondays. 
Closed on 13-15 August 2006
Admissions: 4 € / concessions: 3 €

http://www.casadigoethe.it

Haunting images of love, death, and other universal human experiences by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1865–1944) are presented in an exhibition of 59 of his most important prints. Selected from the Gallery’s holdings and from two exceptional private collections, the exhibition examines Munch’s creative approach to each of these themes, a process that involved transforming ideas into an evocative motif and exploring that motif through numerous variations over a lifetime.

Image: Edvard Munch Vampire II, 1895/1896-1902 lithograph in black and sawn woodblock piece in red with hand coloring on thin grayish white China paper National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Gift of Lionel C. Epstein, 1972

The National Gallery of Art
National Mall between Third and Seventh Streets at Constitution Avenue, Washington, USA
Hours: Monday through Saturday 10 am - 5 pm and Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm
Admission is always free

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The exihibition covers every stage of the artist's creative development: from his beginnings at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts (the originality of his vision can be seen in the exhibition in a comparison with his teachers at that time, from Pompeo Marino Molmenti to Michelangelo Grigoletti), his success at the Brera, Academy up to his participation in the Universal Paris Exhibition (1878) which was a source of new inspiration and technical ideas.

Image: Giacomo Favretto La lezione di anatomia, 1873 olio su tavola, cm 43x27 Milano, Accademia di Brera

Museo Correr
San Marco 52 - Venice, Italy
Entrance for the public: St. Mark’s Square, Napoleonic Wing, Monumental Staircase
Opening Hours:From November 1 until March 31 10am-5pm  From April 1 until October 31 10am -7pm
Admission: A single ticket valid for Palazzo Ducale, Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Sale Monumentali della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: full price € 12 / reduced € 6,50

http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it

A major international exhibition of around 90 works examining the significance, origins, and influence of the Impressionist garden. This is the first exhibition ever to be devoted to this subject. The famous names of Impressionism are well represented, with fine examples by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Manet and Sisley. The exhibition also examines the continued significance of the Impressionist garden to the generation of artists working immediately after the Impressionists, such as Cézanne and Bonnard and in artists such Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt and John Singer Sargent.

Image: Auguste Renoir, Woman with Parasol in a Garden, 1875-6 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Royal Scottish Academy Building - National Galleries of Scotland
The Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland
Opening hours: daily 10am-5pm / Thursdays until 7pm.
Festival opening (6 August - 3 September):
Open daily 10am-6pm. Thursdays until 7pm. Free Entrance.

http://www.nationalgalleries.org