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Siena flourished as a major artistic center during the Italian Renaissance, fuelled by the patronage of powerful and wealthy families, and the results were remarkable for their virtuoso beauty and strong sense of civic identity. This is the first major book in English to showcase a breathtaking and diverse range of masterpieces and discuss in depth how art was shaped...

This gorgeously illustrated and completely updated book introduces art lovers to the finest works from London’s National Gallery, tracing the history of European paintings from the thirteenth to the twentieth century.

A gorgeous presentation of contemporary British artist Alison Watt’s most recent series of powerful, large-scale paintings inspired by the tradition of drapery in western art.

A handsomely illustrated presentation of masterpieces of Dutch art by the preeminent painters of the era, including Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer.

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This book traces the evolution in Raphael's artistic style from his earliest work in Urbino to his masterful paintings in Rome.

Featuring major works by Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto, and more, this volume documents the National Gallery’s unrivaled collection of Venetian paintings created between 1540 and 1600.

This beautifully produced and illustrated catalogue of the sixteenth-century Italian paintings from Brescia, Bergamo and Cremona, in the National Gallery, London provides full scholarly catalogue entries together with many fascinating contextual details and a valuable appendix on collectors and collections. 



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This beautiful book provides an introduction to the National Gallery's Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early modern paintings made between 1860 and 1905.

By the first half of the sixteenth century, German stained glass had reached astonishing heights of artistic and conceptual sophistication. Although often made for churches, not all stained glass of this period was religious; subject matter included landscapes, genre scenes, and heraldic imagery, as well as Biblical scenes. This book examines a group of German stained glass panels––...

A handsome survey of Velázquez's art, career, and widespread influence.

This book introduces Velázquez and his milieu, tracing his development from the earliest Sevilian bodegones [still lifes] to his late mythological pictures and the great series of royal portraits. With a chronology and an absorbing and accessible text, it features fifteen carefully chosen and beautifully reproduced masterpieces.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was one of the most audacious and original landscape artists of his age. This stunning book is the first to examine Renoir’s landscape art in depth, tracing its evolution from the beginning of his career through his Impressionist period and the early 1880s, when he began to incorporate new landscape motifs and new levels of coloristic intensity in pain...

Though he spent much of his career in his native France, Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)––a stylistic innovator who constantly struggled to perfect his art––played a hugely influential role in modernism worldwide. This handsome book is the first to focus on Cézanne’s works and reputation in Britain, where he was a key figure in the great debate about modernis...

This gorgeously illustrated book focuses on the art of the supremely talented Bellini family—Jacopo and his sons Gentile and Giovanni—who transformed Venetian Renaissance painting. Positioned at the cultural crossroads of Christendom, Byzantium, and the Islamic world, the Bellinis created in their works a new synthesis of cultural ideas and aesthetics.

This handsome presentation of 36 masterpieces introduces artists including Michelangelo, Titian, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Turner, Van Gogh, and many more through their most renowned works.

This book offers a unique opportunity to examine minutely some of the National Gallery’s most beautiful masterpieces. By means of special photography through a microscope, we can now approach paintings by Jan van Eyck, Fra Angelico, Raphael, and others to admire a sparkling gem, a small insect, or the artist’s masterly brushwork.

Featuring more than 100 paintings by Sargent, Whistler, and many more, this gloriously illustrated book traces the role of American artists in Paris, from the 1863 Salon des Refusés to the emergence of a uniquely American style of painting at the turn of the century.

This selection of beautiful prints from the collection of The National Gallery, Canada, demonstrates Cassatt's modernist sensibility and technical innovation.

Canadian artist Tim Gardner (b. 1973) burst onto the New York art scene in 2001 with his first solo show, which quickly established his international reputation. His realistic and deftly executed watercolors, paintings, and pastels––often based on snapshot photographs of family and friends––provide rich, provocative, and original commentary on such traditional themes as you...

Invited to be National Gallery Associate Artist, John Virtue took up his brush to create an unprecedented series of large-scale paintings of the London cityscape looking toward St. Paul’s and a smaller group showing Trafalgar Square from the Gallery roof. This book presents all of Virtue’s London paintings and a selection of his drawings and discusses his place in the tradition of Lond...

A beautifully illustrated account of how key groups and artists––including Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Van Gogh, and Gauguin––responded to the 19th-century myth of the artist as heroic, rebellious, isolated, and suffering.

Known for his expressive portraits and London landscapes, draftsman, printmaker, and painter Leon Kossoff (b. 1926) is one of the most significant British artists of the past fifty years. This handsome book features a selection of drawings and prints made over thirty years after paintings by such artists as Poussin, Rubens, Velázquez, Degas, Cézanne, and Goya.

A stunning selection of provocative images––including new work––by Tom Hunter, internationally renowned for his carefully staged and emotionally charged photographic re-creations of Old Master paintings.

 

This extraordinary book examines the flowering of Rubens’s artistic genius and the early evolution of his work. Tracing his path from hesitant beginnings to a triumphant return to The Netherlands after eight years of study in Italy, the book is lavishly illustrated with Rubens’s dramatic paintings—some of the most exciting bravura paintings ever produced.

This lavishly illustrated book—the first comprehensive English-language publication on El Greco in many years—addresses the full range of the great sixteenth-century artist’s work in painting and sculpture, from his Byzantine icons to his late altarpieces. It presents his distinctive religious, mythological, genre, landscape, and portrait works and describes the historical contex...

Incorporating new scholarship since the original 1988 publication, this book investigates questions of attribution and reassesses Rembrandt’s technique, materials, and working methods.

A fascinating and generously illustrated overview of Degas’s working methods and materials, including oil painting, pastels, printmaking and sculpture, in the context of his life and artistic milieu.

Preliminary drawings beneath the surface layers of a painting—called underdrawings—can often be made visible through infra-red reflectography, a technique that sheds new light on attribution, style, changes in composition, and workshop practices. This fascinating book presents the results of pioneering research on the underdrawings of paintings by such Renaissance masters as Raphael, G...

This stunning Pocket Guide discusses the origins, techniques, and development of the Impressionist movement, illustrating the text with works by Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Seurat, Manet, Cézanne, Morisot and Sisley. Kathleen Adler explains why Impressionist artists made a radical departure from the great biblical and mythological narratives that flourished in European art for centuries b...

This Guide discusses the material nature of paintings and the ways that they have changed, both naturally and at the hands of previous restorers, and it describes the main types of conservation treatment carried out on panel and canvas paintings and some of the complex issues involved in cleaning and restoration.

It is not always obvious from looking at pictures what kinds of materials may be used by an artist to make colour. Through a selection of superb pictures from the National Gallery, London, this Pocket Guide explains how colored pigments are combined with a medium to form a paint layer, and how this affects our perception of colour.

From symbolic blossoms in religious paintings of the Middle Ages to Caravaggio’s pomegranates in the Renaissance to Cézanne’s apples and melons in the nineteenth century, flowers and fruit appear in countless paintings. This Pocket Guide explores the presence of fruit and flowers in works of art from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It is a delightful volume for art love...

Myths and legends, with their fantastical settings and parade of exotic creatures and beautiful immortals, have inspired some of the most popular works in the National Gallery Collection. The latest addition to the best-selling Pocket Guides series leads the modern viewer through this important aspect of Western art.

Painters in the past and commercial artists in our own day have relied on allegory to create "message pictures." This book illustrates and explains the main types of visual allegory in Western art and the contexts in which they were originally created and viewed.

As we look at some of the best known and most engaging religious paintings in the Western tradition, it becomes clear that angels can have many intriguing characteristics—they need not be winged, their gender and age are uncertain, they may not even be good (Satan is a fallen angel). This original Pocket Guide examines the surprisingly complicated history of angels in Christian art.

In this beautifully illustrated Pocket Guide, Erika Langmuir presents intriguing examples of Western narrative painting. She examines the different styles of narrative painting and shows how the pictures evolved, how they differ from others that only seem to convey stories, and how viewers’ tendency to make up stories eventually helped to erode that difference.

This book shows how artists in past centuries translated outdoor space and light into paint and how landscape imagery evolved from mere ornament into a visual metaphor of the human condition.

This appealing Pocket Guide draws on the National Gallery’s extensive collection of religious images to illuminate the importance of saints and their role in the history of European painting. The book discusses different types of saints, the wide variety of saintly personalities, the importance of saints in paintings by Raphael, Dürer, Crivelli, and others, the sometimes puzzling...

In this Pocket Guide Erika Langmuir examines the special fascination of still life and what distinguishes it from other categories of painting. She discusses its evolution from the trompe l’oeil wall paintings of ancient Rome, through its revival in the age of Caravaggio and Velázquez, and again in the works of Cézanne and Picasso. More complex than it s...

Frames often catch the eye and arouse the curiosity of visitors to galleries and museums, yet labels and catalogues rarely comment on them. In this elegant survey, Nicholas Penny conveys his passionate interest in the history of frames, the design and techniques of framemaking, what frames do for paintings, and the part they play in the decoration and often the architecture of an interior.

Faces in pictures have much to communicate to us. This Pocket Guide, illustrated with seventy pictures and beautiful details, examines a wide array of fascinating faces in Western European art. The book discusses why artists in the past created faces to look as they do, how faces are painted, what painters through the ages have considered the "ideal" face, and the reasons for the development of po...

Contents of Volume 28:

Bernardo Daddi’s Coronation of the Virgin: The Reunion of Two Long-Separated Panels; Tintoretto’s Underdrawing for Saint George and the Dragon; A Boy with a Bird in the National Gallery: Two Answers to a Titian Question; Monet’s Palette in the Twentieth Century: Water-Lilies and Irises; The Technology of Eightee...

Contents of Volume 27:

The Master of the Story of Griselda and Paintings for Sienese Palaces; The Madonna dei Loreto: An Altarpiece by Perugino for Santa Maria dei Servi, Perugia; Working with Perugino: The Technique of an Annunciation attributed to Giannicola di Paolo; Gilding and Illusion in the Painting of Bernardino Fungai.

 

This annual record of research carried out by curators, conservators, and scientists at the National Gallery, London offers new insights into the evolution of Rubens’s Judgement of Paris, the design practices of Bartholomeus van Bassen, and much more.

In the newest volume in this acclaimed series, curators, conservators, and scientists offer a wealth of information about artists’ materials, working practices and techniques in works by Raphael and Polidoro da Caravaggio, among many others.

This volume of the Technical Bulletin includes a survey of Seurat’s paintings and sketches; the results of detailed analysis of pigment-medium interaction in oil paint films containing red lead or lead-tin yellow; and a report on unusual black pigments found in a group of 16th-century paintings. Other articles examine paintings by Giulio Romano, Marinus van Reymerswale and Goossen van...

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• The cleaning and restoration of Fra Angelico’s predella panels in the National Gallery

• The technique of Garofalo’s paintings in the National Gallery

• Two paintings by Charles-François Daubigny

• The blackening of vermilion: a study of the process through detailed analysis of paint samples

• The ...

Drawing on the expertise of curators, conservators, and scientists, The Technical Bulletin is a unique annual record of research carried out at the National Gallery, London. This volume includes a survey of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century varnish compositions found on Gallery paintings, an analysis of the color change in Pedro Campaña’s Conversion of the Magdalen,<...

Volume 20 is a special extended issue focusing on works by Van Dyck and Rubens in the National Gallery, and with an introductory essay on seventeenth-century painting practice in Antwerp and London and the influence of Italy. This Technical Bulletin is published to mark the 400th anniversary of Van Dyck’s birth.

This magnificent book explores how artists for two millennia have met the challenge of portraying Christ—both man and God, human and divine, mortal and immortal. Illustrated with paintings, prints, and sculpture from the Early Christian era to the twentieth century, the volume examines the changing images of Christ, the shifting concerns of the artists, and the meanings of different represen...

In this beautifully written book an Anglican priest and theologian looks at religious paintings through the ages and presents them to us in a fresh way. John Drury shows how the Christian images in paintings by artists from Piero della Francesca to Velazquez have a universal quality that fills the works with passion, stories, and meaning, not only for audiences of the past but also for viewers tod...

The sculptor Ron Mueck, who has received international recognition since the controversial Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1997, is best known for his incredibly lifelike figurative sculptures, usually cast in silicone and acrylic. This generously illustrated book is the first to discuss the range of Mueck’s innovative work to date.

In this gorgeously illustrated book, renowned Titian scholars examine some of the celebrated artist’s masterpieces and discuss his life and times, portraits, replicas, and technique. The reproductions and text provide new evidence of Titian’s genius as a stylistic innovator and supreme manipulator of paint.

This new catalogue from London’s National Gallery showcases the museum’s spectacular collection of Italian paintings from 1400 to 1460. Included are masterpieces by the greatest artists of the period, including Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Pisanello, and Uccello. Each painting is reproduced full-page, in color, and accompanied by new information gleaned from recent scientific and ar...

This beautiful book takes the reader on a journey through Canaletto’s native Venice. Through a spectacular group of Canaletto’s masterpieces in the National Gallery collection and other works relating to them, the book explores the artist’s painting technique and his treatment of the topography of the city.

This beautiful book provides a detailed examination of some of the finest and best-known paintings in the National Gallery's early Renaissance collection—including masterpieces by Duccio, Van Eyck, Bellini, Raphael, and Leonardo—and offers discussions of why and how the paintings were made. It offers a stimulating and authoritative guide to this important collection—for those for...

All kinds of draped cloth, from an austere dress to billowing draperies, become in the hands of a gifted artist a means of ennobling or sanctifying a painted figure, of creating sensual or erotic effects, and of adding drama to narrative. In this beautiful and innovative book, Anne Hollander examines how artists over a span of six centuries have used clothing and drapery to give emphasis and emoti...

More than forty years ago, John and Charlotte Gere, both distinguished art historians, pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape oil sketches created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of doors in nature. Such paintings, created quickly to capture subtle atmospheric effects and the fleeting play of light, played a vital role in the visual training of generations of E...

A fascinating and in-depth look at Italian Divisionism––the most significant art movement in Italy during the last decades of the 19th century––and its direct influence on the Futurist movement.

With works by Van Eyck, Dürer, Leonardo, Titian, and many more, this gorgeous book examines the relationship between Northern and Southern European Renaissance portrait painting.

Newly updated, this landmark book presents Kenneth Clark’s favorite details from paintings in the National Gallery’s collection together with personal commentary to provide an introduction to the history of art.

Featuring case studies that address issues of modern conservation, this book discusses the material nature of paintings and the ways that they have changed.

The National Gallery, London, presents high-quality reproductions of some two hundred best-loved masterpieces of Western European art from their impressive collection, in a gorgeous, pocket-sized format.

Featuring extensive archival photographs, this book provides a riveting historical and photographic account of the National Gallery, London, during World War II.

This delightful book documents the celebrated exhibition for which the National Gallery hung reproductions of 44 masterpieces throughout the streets of London.

This engaging and accessible book reveals fascinating facts and hidden histories behind paintings in the National Gallery, London.