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Read about how artists represented specific places in the Renaissance and thus helped to forge their identities through their paintings.

A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.

Converting the National Gallery into a temporary concert hall had its challenges. Discover how Myra Hess's team dealt with noise pollution from nearby churches and military bands.

Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) was born at Argenteuil, and moved to Paris in 1900. He was impressed by the works of the Fauve painters, including Matisse, and in 1907 the Cezanne Memorial Exhibition influenced him greatly.Shortly afterwards he met P...

Memento Mori is Latin for reminder of death. Skulls which are represented in Northern European portraits and still lifes, and South European depictions of saints, of the 16th and 17th centuries are perhaps the most obvious examples of such subject...

Bonaventure (1221 - 1274) was a Franciscan. He taught in Paris (the great university of the time), where he knew Thomas Aquinas. He became the head of the Franciscan Order, and later the cardinal bishop of Albano. He was a considerable intellectu...

This French term refers to the different types of subjects in paintings. There is for instance the genre of landscape painting, and the genre of portraiture.From the 16th century onwards genres were organised into a hierarchy, with the noblest for...

1606 - 1669

Lazarus was the brother of Mary and Martha of Bethany. He died and was raised from the dead by Jesus Christ, as recounted in Saint John's Gospel (John 11: 1-45). Mary and Martha had sent messages to Jesus, begging him to come and save their sick b...