Jeremy Deller talks to Emily at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, one of the four UK partners taking part in 'The Triumph of Art'. Hear Deller give insights into his work on ...

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

In Greek and Roman mythology, the god Saturn was warned that one of his offspring would overthrow him, so he ate his children at birth. To protect their son, his wife Ops took the infant Jupiter to ...

Louis de Boullogne (le Jeune) was born in Paris in November 1654, the second son of the painter Louis de Boullogne or Boullongne (l'Ancien). Both he and his elder brother Bon studied at the Academy in ...

Taking careful steps, a woman comes towards us, holding what at first glance looks like a deep circular tray. She is the Vestal Virgin Tuccia and the object she carries is, in fact, a sieve. Vestal ...

In the May 2008 podcast, Nicholas Penny on returning to the Gallery as Director, Rachel Ruysch’s celebrated blooms, and a house where art meets science. Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): Hello, I’m ...

This is thought to be one of Boccaccino’s earliest known works. It is an altarpiece painted for the choir screen of the church of S. Domenico in Cremona. Christ carries the Cross escorted by three ...

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A number of black pigments have been identified in 16th-century Italian paintings in the National Gallery. The 'black earths' are a category of black pigments referred to as black chalks and black ...

Discover a display of drawings by Frank Auerbach in the Espresso Bar. Plus, anxious art by Pontormo and why Poussin is worth the effort. MIRANDA HINKLEY (in the studio): This is the National Gallery ...

This portrait bust of the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) was made around 1880, and presented to the National Gallery three years later by the British collector Henry Vaughan.

A rather lonely figure, almost certainly the cook or maid in a prosperous Amsterdam household, is doing the washing up in a gloomy kitchen. She looks up and her face catches the light; we can see her ...