Read and watch stories inspired by our paintings

Discover how, behind this flamboyant portrait, lies a sense of melancholy

Read about our exciting new acquisition – a recently discovered self portrait by the most celebrated female artist of the Italian Baroque

Michael Palin discusses his favourite National Gallery paintings, in conversation with Caroline Campbell.

Find out how a radical breakaway movement became one of the most popular styles in modern art.

Watch our Director, Gabriele Finaldi, explore the life and work of Bernardo Bellotto and the recently acquired painting, The Fortress of Königstein from the North.

Discover how four of Australia's most significant artists engaged with and contributed to the broader, international movement that was Impressionism.

Read about Turner's celebrated painting of the last voyage of an old war hero – The Fighting Temeraire.

She was the most powerful courtesan of her day, but who was the real Madame de Pompadour?

Learn how The Madonna of the Pinks was identified as a work by Raphael.

Uncover the secrets that lie behind Leonardo's Renaissance masterpiece.

Learn more about Botticelli's intriguing mythological scene depicting the goddess of love, and the god of war

Learn how the National Gallery survived during the Second World War.