The National Gallery, London
Bringing people and paintings together. Admission free, donations welcome. Open daily: 10am - 6pm. Friday lates until 9pm. Trafalgar Square, London. WC2N 5DN. Plan your visit. Need more assistance? Visit our access page.
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. 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.
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.
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.
Raphael (1483 - 1520) | National Gallery, London
Jakob Schlesinger. Jakob Schlesinger (1792–1855) made this tracing in 1822 of the Sistine Madonna by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael (1483–1520). Drawn in pencil, it is formed of 24 pieces of paper pasted together and mounted on a canvas the same size as the painting. Schlesinger was a painter and picture re...
Exhibitions | National Gallery, London
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers. Be blown away by Van Gogh’s most spectacular paintings in our once-in-a-century exhibition. See some of Europe's earliest, most exquisite and most significant artworks. Members get access to all the Gallery has to offer. Join today.
Artemisia Gentileschi | Paintings | National Gallery, London
Born in Rome in 1593, Artemisia was brought up by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. She trained alongside her three brothers in his workshop, where she proved the most talented of all his children. At the age of only 17, Artemisia was raped by the painter Agostino Tassi. There followed an infamous trial in 1612, in which Artemisia was ...