national gallery

January 2, 2018
Piero di Cosimo was born on 2 January 1462 in Florence.

October 28, 2017
On View: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael around 1500

June 16, 2017
Favorite Artwork Fact File: Sebastiano del Piombo

February 18, 2017
Pontormo Painting Problems Persist An impressive campaign by London’s National Gallery to raise funds to keep a prominent Pontormo portrait in England seems for naught as it appears the American purchaser of the painting will not accept their matched payment.

February 15, 2017
Repentant Magdelene by Cagnacci Comes to London Guido Cagnacci’s Repentant Magdalene will be on view at the National Gallery, London , from 15 February through 21 May 2017.

October 15, 2016
London National Gallery in Pursuit of Pontormo News out of England earlier this week suggests that London’s National Gallery is very close to raising the funds needed to acquire Jacopo Pontormo’s Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap (1530) .

October 12, 2016
Beyond Caravaggio Exhibition Opens Today at London’s National Gallery The exhibition “ Beyond Caravaggio ” opens 12 October at the National Gallery in London.

February 19, 2016
Renaissance painter Masaccio received the first payment for the so-called “Pisa Altarpiece” on 19 February 1426.

January 19, 2016
Yale University Press publishes Visions of Paradise: Botticini’s Palmieri Altarpiece by Jennifer Sliwka, which coincides with the exhibition on view at the National Gallery, London through 28 March 2016 .

December 14, 2014
Mary sits on an elaborately decorated throne, her lap creating a throne for her son Jesus.