A chronological overview of the Museum's distinguished collection of European paintings from the 13th through the 18th century.

Free with Museum admission

12:30 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall

An exploration of the 19th-century French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists focusing on the artists' stylistic innovations and the social milieu in which they worked.

Free with Museum admission

3:15 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall

A selection ranging from Italian Renaissance works to an exquisite tiny panel made for Queen Isabella of Spain to Rubens's earliest dated painting, all collected by a couple who followed their excellent instincts with single-minded dedication.

Free with Museum admission

7:00 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall

Considers Bronzino's enigmatic painting and sitter within the topos of sixteenth-century portraiture and subjectivity, while addressing the portrait's relationship to traditions and innovations in Renaissance and Mannerist painting.

Free with Museum admission

7:00 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall

Supplementing the Look Again! program of the morning, this session shows families how a particular work of art was created, through handling tools and materials.

Free with Museum admission

2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m., Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, 2nd floor

Supplementing the Look Again! program of the morning, this session shows families how a particular work of art was created, through handling tools and materials.

Free with Museum admission

3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m., Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries, 2nd floor

Part of Sunday at the Met—From Monet to Matisse: The Annenberg Collection Revisited

Free with Museum admission

2:20 p.m., The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Part of Sunday at the Met—From Monet to Matisse: The Annenberg Collection Revisited

Free with Museum admission

2:40 p.m., The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Explore the span of El Greco's career, from his origins as a painter of icons in his native Crete to his work in Venice and Rome and his definitive move to Toledo, Spain. Learn how El Greco related his topics to the demands of the times and study his masterpiece at the Met, View of Toledo.

Fee: $10

8:00 p.m.–9:15 p.m.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) was an artist, a diplomat, a courtier, a world traveler, an intellectual, a polyglot, and a family man. His prolific output and fame made him a major artistic force in the seventeenth century. Discuss Rubens's art and enormous influence in the development of European painting during this conversational workshop.

Fee: $20

4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Uris Center for Education, ground floor

Part of Sunday at the Met—From Monet to Matisse: The Annenberg Collection Revisited

Free with Museum admission

3:00 p.m., The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Didier Baussy, director. Reveals the artist's character through the paintings of his youth and those done for the royal family of King Philip IV (60 min.). This film is shown in conjunction with the special exhibition "Velázquez Rediscovered."

Free with Museum admission

2:00 p.m., Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education

Members beginning at the Sustaining level are invited to experience the pleasure of exploring the galleries when the Museum is closed to the public. A slide lecture is presented in the Museum’s Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, followed by exclusive luncheon discussions in The Trustees Dining Room and gallery studies. Attendance is limited.

Fee: $1,600 for the eight-session semester

10:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

Part of the lecture series, "Genius at the Vatican: Rome 1450–1650," given by Olivier Bernier.

$23

6:00 p.m., The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

This talk celebrates the recently reattributed portrait, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, as an autograph work by the seventeenth-century Spanish master himself. This "new" Velázquez is examined in the context of the artist's œuvre and is compared to Velázquez's other portraits, some of which are in the Museum's collection.

Free with Museum admission

10:00 a.m., Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education