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The Virgin and Child

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

probably about 1493-9

Altered Angels: Two Panels from the Immaculate Conception Altarpiece once in San Francesco Grande, Milan

Read an article from the National Gallery Technical Bulletin, by Rachel Billinge, Luke Syson and Marika Spring

Bernardino Luini

about 1480 - 1532

Leonardo da Vinci’s 'Virgin of the Rocks': Treatment, Technique and Display

Read an article from the National Gallery Technical Bulletin, by Larry Keith, Ashok Roy, Rachel Morrison and Peter Schade

Behind the scenes in Conservation: The Ugly Duchess

Britta New reveals surprising discoveries about 'The Ugly Duchess' and how the painting links Leonardo da Vinci to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

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Pietro Perugino

living 1469; died 1523

Medieval and Early Renaissance (1260–1550)

Made between 1260 and 1550, these are the earliest pictures in the collection. They are works of great ambition and emotion, by artists such as Botticelli, Raphael, Jan van Eyck and Leonardo da Vinci.

Portrait of a Young Man

probably 1550-5

Aerial perspective

Leonardo da Vinci, among others, observed that as a landscape recedes from the viewer its colours and tones alter due to the nature of the atmosphere. The pictorial equivalent of this phenomenon is called aerial or atmospheric perspective. This ef...

This is an Italian term which literally means 'light-dark'. In paintings the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modelling of the subjects depicted. Artists who are famed for the use of chiar...