Entry to the Gallery to view the collection is free – admission is now through the Portico Entrance. We encourage people to book a gallery entry ticket. Please note it may take longer to access the ...
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 ...
TThe Gallery offers a collaborative MA in Theology, Bible, and the Arts (formerly called the MA in Christianity and the Arts), taught in association with the Department of Theology and Religious ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A wild, mountainous landscape stretches out before us, with sharp snowy peaks silhouetted against the sky. In the middle distance, just beyond the rushing waterfall, a town – complete with campanile ...
This painting may be an idealised portrait of a woman in the guise of a saint, as she has a thin gold halo above her head. She looks directly at us and presses her right hand against her breast. Her ...
Turner vs Claude: exhibition preview. Plus broadcaster Gus Casely-Hayford on ‘Your Paintings’ and the view from Rubens’s window. Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): This is the National Gallery Podcast ...
As ‘ Making Colour’ continues, we get up close to some of the world’s rarest pigments. Plus, a luminous pastel by Rosalba Carriera. MIRANDA HINKLEY (in the studio): This is the National Gallery ...
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 ...