Short talk - Christ as a Gardener by Rembrandt
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London Victoria. Visit National Rail Enquiries for times and fares.
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Victoria, Green Park, St. James's Park and Hyde Park Corner. For further information visit the Transport for London website.
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Bus numbers 11, 211, C1 and C10 stop on Buckingham Palace Road. Victoria Coach Station is a 10-minute walk from the Palace. For further information visit the Transport for London website.
Join Desmond Shawe- Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, as he discusses Rembrandt's Christ as a gardener, which depicts Mary Magdalen's encounter with the risen Christ and follows St John's Gospel with imaginative fidelity. The facts recounted in the text - the light of the dawn and the turn of Mary's head - become significant gestures and symbols. For a moment Mary mistook Christ for a gardener; but what can be the significance of Christ's sun-hat and spade?
