Search results

Saved for the nation and on display in perpetuity, read how generous legacies from the late Mrs Madeline Swallow and Mrs Mollie W. Vickers helped make the acquisition of Belotto’s impressive landscape possible

In the January 2009 podcast, Hear about new acquistions at the Gallery by Monet and Gauguin. Plus learn about the journey of ultramarine through the ages, and find out how to get more from your cultural life.

The conventional timeline of artists who are sometimes considered as ‘Old Masters’ or ‘Great Artists’. Today’s art history attempts to question these rules of ‘greatness’, considering issues of gender, race, class, and geography among others.

Why German Renaissance art made the Victorians blanch, plus painting in the snow and a reunion for Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.

perhaps 1794

Read an article from the National Gallery Technical Bulletin, by Rachel Billinge

In the Episode Fifty Three (March 2011) podcast, Google Art Project: new ways of looking at Old Masters. Plus Gossaert on money, and looking at books in art.