Take your pick of art from Raphael and Jan van Eyck to the film special effects of Ray Harryhausen.
Image captionLet's start in Bath at the Holburne museum, for an exhibition of Grayson Perry's early work in a show with the Adrian Mole-ish subtitle, The Pre-Therapy Years. Should be good. Planning for it started with a public appeal in 2018 to source the Turner Prize-winning potter's early ceramic works made between 1982 and the mid-1990s.
Even further west is the city of Galway in Ireland, which is taking up the mantle as European Capital of Culture 2020. For its year-long celebration, Galway is using the old Celtic calendar with four distinct seasons: Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasa, and Samhain.It starts in February with a"fiery, festive" opening ceremony and ends in January 2021 with a Lumiere Galway closing event. Sandwiched in between will be a packed programme put together by artists who embody the spirit of the city.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino - that's Raphael to you and me - didn't have a punky bone in his body. He was the grand master of the High Renaissance who died at just 37 years-old having expended too much energy chasing ladies.Two very different works by Linder Sterling will be on display at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge
Rembrandt had his big anniversary last year, marked by a sensational show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which celebrated the work of Golden Age painter. If you didn't get there then all is not lost, your FOMO can be tempered by a visit to the Ashmolean museum in Oxford this spring for its Young Rembrandt show, imported from the Dutch master's home town of Leiden.
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