Exhibition one week
Versailles: Knowledge and Splendor
The Palace of the Sun King was the birthplace of this world, says this blockbuster.
Science Museum, London, 12 December-21 April
Showing off too
Everest Revisited
Haunting Everest photos and stories mark the centenary of Mallory and Irwin’s doomed attempt at the summit.
Rheged, Penrith, until February 23
Japanese art to the Takashi Murakami
A cheeky pop reworking of classic Japanese art. Hokusai is flying in his grave.
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London, 10 December-8 March
Dürer Van Dyck
Drawings from the Devonshire Collection with a focus on northern European artists of the Renaissance and baroque periods.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, to 23 February
Surreal traumatic
The great Swiss surrealist Meret Oppenheim is among the German-speaking women in this show.
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, until 16 March
Image of the week
Photograph: Tristan Fewings / Getty Images
Music echoes from a loose Ford Escort on a giant doily in Jasleen Kaur Turner’s award-winning show. Our critic admits that he wanted to praise her when he first saw and heard her. Read their full review
What we have learned
Major exhibition of the romantic genius Caspar David Frederick in New York in 2025. opens
Artists around the world are expressing their fear of a second Trump presidency
Parmigianino’s Vision of St. Jerome is a religious wilderness
The Queen in the Asia Pacific Triennial is an explosion of color and hope
An Elizabethan image can be found to have been a symbol of love for Sir Walter Raleigh
Traces of the art of love in the new technology research of the 1950s
The tumultuous period caused India’s artists and activists to innovate
Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla’s lost masterpiece is on display after 134 years
A winner of one of the sabbaths
Coronation of the Virgin, 1407-09, by Lawrence of Monaco
You would hardly believe the art of conversion in Florence from this spectacular Gothic scene painted in the monastery of San Benedetto fuori della Porta Pinti in the early 1400s. Lorenzo Monaco in the style of Giotto a century ago. His Virgin Mary is a human character, placed under a tented canopy, but there is also an abstract reason for it all, who humbly bows to be crowned above the congregation of angels. Other heavenly powers are depicted in many of the side panels that flank this central one – all in the new medieval chamber in the National Gallery. The feelings of Monoceans are simple, humble and reverent. Anyone could relate to his piety. Soon, Florentine artists would begin to experiment with new ideas about perspective and classical proportion that made art more complex and rich – yet less accessible to the public.
National Gallery, London
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