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Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers - National Gallery, London
Tickets now available, booking through to 8 December. Be blown away by Van Gogh’s most spectacular paintings in our once-in-a-century exhibition. Walk with a pair of lovers beneath a starry night. Look up at swirling clouds and cypress trees swaying in the wind. Stay a little while in Van Gogh’s favourite park, the ‘Poet’s Garden’, or ...
Plan your visit | Visiting | National Gallery, London
Plan your visit. The National Gallery is free to visit. There is a charge for some exhibitions. Advanced booking is recommended to help plan your visit and to receive updates before you arrive. Open daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm (Closed 24–26 December and 1 January) Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN.
Top 20 paintings | Stories | National Gallery, London
Detail from Jan van Eyck, 'The Arnolfini Portrait', 1434. Detail from Hans Holbein the Younger, 'The Ambassadors', 1533. Detail from Joseph Mallord William Turner, 'The Fighting Temeraire', 1839. Detail from Leonardo da Vinci, 'The Virgin of the Rocks', about 1491/2-9 and 1506-8. The most popular painting page, with the highest number of views ...
Jan van Eyck, 'The Arnolfini Portrait', 1434 - The National Gallery, …
The Arnolfini were an extensive family of Italian merchants, with various members in Bruges at this period. The most likely candidate is Giovanni di Nicolao di Arnolfini, known as Giannino or Jehannin, who would have been in his late thirties in 1434. The lady is probably his second wife, whose identity is unknown.
Search the collection | Paintings | National Gallery, London
Bacchus and Ariadne. Titian. One of the most famous paintings in the National Gallery, Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne illustrates a story told by the classical authors Ovid and Catullus. The Cretan princess Ariadne has been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship sails away in the distance.
The Virgin of the Rocks | NG1093 - The National Gallery, London
The confraternity’s chapel was destroyed in 1576, the altarpiece was broken up and parts were sold. The Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo’s mysterious painting shows the Virgin Mary with Saint John the Baptist, Christ’s cousin, and an angel. All kneel to adore the infant Christ, who in turn raises his hand to bless them.
Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) | National Gallery, London
This is an old copy, badly damaged in places, of a now lost painting that Michelangelo made for Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, in 1530. The Duke had recently received three mythological paintings from Titian, including the National Gallery’s Bacchus and Ariadne, so in accepting the commission M... This painting by an unknown artist is ...
National Gallery stages major Vincent van Gogh exhibition for …
14 September 2024 ‒ 19 January 2025 The National Gallery Rooms 1‒8, Admission charge. To mark its 200th anniversary the National Gallery will stage a major exhibition of the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh in autumn 2024.. Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers will also mark the centenary of the Gallery’s acquisition of the artist’s Sunflowers and Van Gogh’s Chair (1888), two of its …
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) | National Gallery, London
Painter, sculptor, architect, designer, theorist, engineer and scientist, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most famous images in European art. Though many of his works were never finished, and even fewer have survived, he influenced generations of artists and he continues to be revered as a universal genius.Leonardo was born near the Tuscan hill-town of Vinci.