The National Gallery

Experts at The National Gallery explain why Gainsborough's painting has intrigued people for centuries.
A look 'beneath' Titian's canvases reveals the tweaks and changes he made as he worked over four hundred years ago. Find out more with Restorer Jill Dunkerton.
A five-minute slow-looking exercise to enjoy the details of Joseph Mallord William Turner's 'Rain, Steam and Speed'.
Copies of the Roman poet Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' take up a lot of shelf space in Mary Beard's study, she looks at Titian's reinvention of the tales.
A look at paintings that depict interiors and people at home, presented by Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, the Myojin-Nadar Associate Curator of Paintings, 1600–1800, at the National Gallery, London.
Curator of Later Italian, Spanish, and French 17th-century Paintings, Letizia Treves, guides you through the tumultuous life of Caravaggio. She looks at how his innovative style developed from a…
Peter Schade, the Head of the Framing department at the National Gallery, shows the process of creating six huge matching frames for the Titian: Love Desire Death exhibition. Matthias Wivel, Curator…
A tale of two artists and brothers-in-law, ‘Mantegna and Bellini’ tells a story of art, family, rivalry, and personality. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see in London rare loans of…

Who was Artemisia Gentileschi and how does she portray herself in this rare self-portrait? Letizia Treves, the James and Sarah Sassoon Curator of Later Italian, Spanish, and French 17th-century…

Conservator Hayley Tomlinson takes us behind the scenes in Conservation to discuss the cleaning of Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair.

What began as a tourist holiday to Venice in 1908 ended up sparking some of Monet’s most haunting and mysterious paintings of architecture. Travel along the canals of Venice with Rosalind McKever…

"Like place, time is an important theological category and, like the Incarnation, it can be hard to comprehend. This episode looks at sophisticated ways of handling different but related time…

London - This autumn there is unique opportunity to explore the complex relationship between three giants of Renaissance art in a special display at the National…

"Discover how van Eyck’s 'Arnolfini Portrait' was one of the beacons by which the Pre-Raphaelites forged a radical new style of painting." - The National Gallery

 

'The Fortress of Königstein from the North' by Bellotto, which was due to be exported from Britain, has been saved for…