Research partnerships

Find out about the National Gallery's partnerships with research and higher education institutions

See Former Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships 

Detail from Bernardo Bellotto, Venice: The Grand Canal facing Santa Croce, about 1738
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
Navigating the Canals. Making and Moving Venetian Renaissance Paintings
Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, in collaboration with the University of Warwick
Detail from Carlo Crivelli, The Demidoff Altarpiece, 1476
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
The Imagined Made Real: The interaction between sculpture and painting in the work of Carlo Crivelli
Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University
A photograph of ground blue pigment
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
Aspects of manufacture, trade and history of the blue pigment, smalt, and the relationship between its use in painting and other branches of the arts
Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, in collaboration with the University of Glasgow
Portrait photograph of Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, wife of Sir Charles Lock Eastlake first director of The National Gallery.
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
Modern Mistresses on the Old Masters: 19th-century women writers on western European art – their networks and influence
Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, in collaboration with Birkbeck College
An excerpt from Sir Charles Eastlake's travel diary
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
Conservation varnishes at the National Gallery: Studying their optical and material properties
Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, in collaboration with the Nottingham Trent University.
Detail from Pietro Perugino, Three Panels from an Altarpiece, Certosa about 1496-1500
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
The Workshop and its Painters: Perugino and the Perugineschi in Florence and Perugia
Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, in collaboration with the Warburg Institute
Detail from Dirk Bouts, The Virgin and Child, about 1465
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
Settings and Subjects in Early Netherlandish Painting
Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, in collaboration with the University of York
An excerpt from the Catalogue of the Eastlake Library of the National Gallery
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
Art history scholarship between the 1820s and the 1870s: The role of the Eastlake Library at the National Gallery
Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, in collaboration with Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
CDP
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme
Opportunities for universities to develop collaborative doctoral research studentships in partnership with the National Gallery.
A ‘raking light’ photograph of Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’, 1888
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
2.5D and 3D image capture and print in the cultural heritage field
Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, offered in partnership with the University of the West of England.
Detail from Raphael, 'Saint Catherine of Alexandria', about 1507
MA in Art History, Curatorship, and Renaissance Culture
A new collaborative MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture, offered jointly between the National Gallery and the Warburg Institute.
Flemish: 'Cognoscenti in a Room hung with Pictures' (detail) about 1620
MA: The Art Market and the History of Collecting
An MA in the Art Market and the History of Collecting offered by the University of Buckingham and the National Gallery in association with Waddesdon Manor (Rothschild Collections).
Catena, 'Saint Jerome in his Study'
MA in Christianity and the Arts
A new collaborative MA in Christianity and the Arts, taught in association with King’s College London
British Sales 1780–1800: The Rise of the London Art Market
The National Gallery is working with the Getty Research Institute to improve records on British art sales in the crucial decades from 1780 to 1800.
British Sales Phase II: 1680-1780
The National Gallery is working with the Getty Research Institute to improve records on British art sales in period from 1680 to 1780.
Detail from Giovanni dal Ponte 'Ascension of John the Evangelist Altarpiece'
Collaborative Doctoral Award
Italian Altarpieces in Context
Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, offered in collaboration with the History of Art Department at the University of Warwick

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