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4 February 2012 Last updated at 08:43

In Pictures: The Queen Art and Images display Cardiff

To mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, a new exhibition of 60 images of the monarch opens at National Museum Cardiff on Saturday. It includes Chris Levin's highly unusual photograph from a 2004 sitting of The Queen with her eyes closed.

Running until 29 April, The Queen: Art and Images is comprised of images spanning her reign, from the early years, as seen in this photograph by Dorothy Wilding, to more contemporary interpretations.

Gilbert and George's 1981 work, Coronation Cross, used postcards of Westminster Abbey's nave and Cecil Beaton's Coronation Day photograph to show the artists' admiration for the monarch.

They used postcards again for their other 1981 work, Elizabeth and Philip Potent.

The more formal portraits in the exhibition, on a tour organised by the National Portrait Gallery, include this 1956 piece which brought fame for the Renaissance-influenced Italian portrait and fresco painter, Pietro Annigoni.

The more informal include Justin Mortimer's 1998 painting, in which the Queen's head floats away from her body against a huge background of flat vibrant yellow.

The wider exhibition aims to show the change in the way the Queen has been received in Wales through the length of her reign. Here she is seen in Eve Arnold's 1968 photo.

The multi-media element of the exhibition in Cardiff includes an interview with Welsh-language activist Meg Elis who was presented to the Queen when aged four, just three years after Dorothy Wilding's hand-coloured portrait dating from 1952.

Ms Elis went on to take part in a protest against the Queen's return visit to the National Library of Wales in Aberystyth in 1996, three years before this image was taken by photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.

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