LONDON.- London Art Week, the world’s most important gallery-based celebration of pre-contemporary art, will take place in Mayfair and St. James’s from 1 to 8 July 2016. Bringing together almost 50 leading specialist dealers and three auction houses, this year will present more dedicated exhibitions than ever before, and will also include nine new participants and an exclusive partnership with Art History UK, a cultural tours company specialised in the history of the capital’s art and architecture. 

Presenting a wide array of art from antiquity to the 20th century, including a number of rediscoveries and works rarely, if ever, seen in public, highlights this year include exhibitions dedicated to a wide range of specialist subjects including ancient arms and armour, 16th century stained glass, Dutch flower paintings, ancient Greek coins, artist’s sketches and sketchbook pages, neoclassicism through the centuries, medieval and Renaissance sculpture, British Impressionism, and European portraiture. 

London Art Week 2016 will present the opportunity to explore a wealth of works by celebrated figures from art history including, among many others, Jacopo Amigoni, Alberto Burri, John Constable, Antonio Canova, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Alfred Munnings, Sir Winston Churchill, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Gauguin, Jean-Etienne Liotard, Guercino, Amedeo Modigliani, Jusepe de Ribera, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Tintoretto and Paolo Uccello. 

Dedicated exhibitions include: • Vanitas / Memento Mori and The Crucifixion by Paolo Uccello at Agnew’s • Art & Adornment: Treasures of Combat at Ariadne Galleries • Early European Sculpture at Arcadia Cerri Fine Art • Inter-War Paris: Works on Paper at Aktis Gallery • Portraiture and Perception at Deborah Gage Ltd • European Master Drawings (1545-2015) at Didier Aaron Ltd. • Deities & Daily Life at Charles Ede • Arms and Armour from the court of the Electors of Saxony at Peter Finer • Gilded Light; 16th-century stained glass roundels from the collection of Sir Thomas Neave and other private collections at Sam Fogg • Flint Marble Bronze from the Mediterranean and Beyond at Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch Ltd. • Portraiture and Perception at Deborah Gage (Works of Art) Ltd. • Dutch Flower Pieces 1607-1814 and Aspects of British Impressionism at Richard Green Fine Paintings • 17th Century Still Life and Song Yu at Johnny Van Haeften Ltd. • Horses, Rulers, and Victory in the Art of Ancient Greek Coinage at Kallos Gallery • Of Gods and Men at Daniel Katz Gallery • Antonio Joli (1700 - 1777): Views of Italy at Lampronti Gallery • Classicism Reimagined: Master Paintings and Sculpture 1700-1900 at Lullo•Pampoulides • Material X at M&L Fine Art • Traveller-artists in the Far East: Views in India, China and Indonesia at Martyn Gregory • Panel Power: Royalty and Status in Tudor England at Philip Mould • Bronze Animal Sculptures by Rembrandt Bugatti at The Sladmore Gallery • Drawing Inspiration: Sketches and Sketchbook Pages from the 19th and 20th Century at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art • Antique Inspiration at Tomasso Brothers Fine Art • From Wax to Bronze - Themes and Materials in Sculpture at Trinity Fine Art Ltd. • Object in Focus: An Archaic Greek Bronze Griffin Protome at Rupert Wace Ancient Art • Cornelius Johnson: Painter to King and Country at The Weiss Gallery.

Paolo di Dono, called Paolo Uccello, The Crucifixion. Tempera and gold on panel, 23 5/8 x 13 3/8 in. (60 x 34 cm.). Agnew’s © Agnew’s 

Greek, 5th-4th BC. Samno-Attic Winged Helmet. Bronze, 10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.). Ariadne Galleries © Ariadne Galleries

Etruscan, circa 500-450 BC. Suite of Armour. Bronze. Ariadne Galleries © Ariadne Galleries

Middle Bronze Age, circa 1450-1250 BC. Axe Head. Bronze, 11 7/16 in. (29 cm.). Ariadne Galleries © Ariadne Galleries

Head of a man frowning, Champagne, Reims, Second third 13th century. Fossiliferous limestone, 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (13 x 13 x 13 cm.). Arcadia Cerri Fine Art © Arcadia Cerri Fine Art.

Duncan Grant (1885 – 1978), Portrait of Leonard Woolf, oil on board, 27 9/16 x 23 7/16 in. (70 x 59.5 cm.). Deborah Gage Ltd © Deborah Gage Ltd