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 ...

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Painter and writer, Hoogstraten is best remembered for his experiments in perspective. His perspective box, 'A Peepshow', is the best surviving example of this aspect of his art. His preoccupation ...

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Rousseau was born at Laval and first worked as an inspector at a toll station on the outskirts of Paris (1871-85). From this his popular name 'le douanier' (the customs officer) is derived. He took ...

Following recent incidents within the Gallery it is now necessary to introduce increased security measures to ensure the safety of all who visit, National Gallery staff and the nation’s collection of ...

This is the central panel of a large altarpiece made for the church of San Pier Maggiore, Florence. Christ crowns the Virgin, after her body and soul have been taken up to heaven. This was an ...

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

This painting shows one of the seven acts of charity described in the Gospel of Matthew and was part of a series that Murillo painted for the church of the Hospital de la Caridad in Seville. The ...

Friedrich was born in Pomerania, then part of Sweden. He studied at the University of Greifswald and the Copenhagen Academy. He settled in Dresden, and associated with its circle of Romantic scholars ...

Cima was one of the most prolific artists in Venice at the end of the 15th century. More than thirty altarpieces by Cima survive - more than for any of his contemporaries. They include 'The ...

Francisque Millet was born in Antwerp but moved to Paris in 1659 and settled there. He is said to have visited Holland and England. There appear to be no acceptably signed pictures by him, but several ...