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What's on this Christmas

Experience the magic of Christmas at the National Gallery.

What's on in the Gallery

A colourful Christmas

Step into the colourful world of Radical Harmony this Christmas. Our first-ever exhibition dedicated to the Neo-Impressionists.

Wonder and awe

Surround yourself in the glow of Joseph Wright 'of Derby's' ‘candlelight’ paintings in the exhibition Wright of Derby: From the Shadows.

 

From dawn to dusk

Hear the story of a great American artist and his finest painting in Edwin Austin Abbey: By the Dawn’s Early Light.

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Picture of the month

A very fashionable Virgin Mary shines in Francesco d'Antonio di Bartolomeo's 'The Virgin and Child with Six Angels and Two Cherubim' our December Picture of the month.

The story of gold

Welcome to a new miniseries of ‘Stories in Colour’. Our podcast returns to tell the story of a rare, sparkling and glistening colour – or should we say material?

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New light on an old Nativity

Watch rays of light and angel wings emerge during the conservation of Geertgen tot Sint Jans's 'The Nativity at Night', free on our YouTube channel. 

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