The history of art is full of unsolved mysteries. Art historians have spent centuries trying to understand paintings whose exact meanings have been lost over time. The images and ideas in many Western ...

Katrina Palmer shares her interest in the visible and invisible activities that take place in the Gallery. Katrina Palmer offers a different perspective on Room 18 and its paintings. Struck by an ...

'The Finding of Moses’ depicts an Old Testament story. This monumental painting was commissioned by King Charles I and Henrietta Maria to celebrate the arrival of their first son. Two kings, of ...

Of the Gallery’s 27 works by women, one-third have been acquired because of these acts of generosity. Most recently, The Full ...

The landscape on the left is in the manner of Jan Wijnants. No. 1383 is painted in the meticulous technique of Vermeer’s late years. It has been dated by both MacLaren and Blankert 6 to c. 1670.

These catalogue entries are the result of a pilot project to set up a process that takes the desktop publishing files that were sent to press, converts them to a more flexible digital format, and ...

These catalogue entries are the result of a pilot project to set up a process that takes the desktop publishing files that were sent to press, converts them to a more flexible digital format, and ...

Image: Pierre Auguste Renoir, ‘Portrait of Claude Monet’, Musée d’Orsay, Paris © RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi Monet was the leading French ...

Johannes Vermeer is one of the great Dutch masters, though only about 35 paintings by him are known. Born in Delft in 1632, he may have been a pupil of local history painter Leonaert Bramer. Vermeer ...

A reflection on the artists and National Gallery exhibitions and paintings that have been part of David Hockney’s long career ...

What characterises Impressionism for most people nowadays, is both the subject matter and the technique. Landscapes, and scenes from modern urban and suburban life painted in bright, pure colours are ...

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