Eurostar and the National Gallery unveiled the world's first interactive digital art gallery for international travellers, to be enjoyed by millions of people who pass through the high-speed rail gateway between the UK and mainland Europe.
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The National Gallery and Hewlett-Packard (HP) in collaboration with York Art Gallery unveiled the Grand Tour in York.
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Arguably the inspiration for great art more than any other human emotion, love nevertheless presents a challenge to the visual artist. How do you depict love? How do you convey its complexity and intensity?
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Radical Light is the largest show of its kind to be held in the UK, and one of the first outside Italy to examine this vital movement. Comprising over fifty works by the most influential Divisionist painters, the exhibition includes rare loans from private collections (Umberto Boccioni, Workshops at Porta Romana, 1908) and the public collections of Europe and North America. The exhibition will run from 18 June to 7 September 2008.
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Alison Watt is the seventh National Gallery Associate Artist and the youngest in the scheme's history. This exhibition marks the end of her two year period at the National Gallery and is comprised of six large scale works which were inspired by works from the Gallery's permanent collection.
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The Prime Minister has re-appointed the Marchioness of Normanby as a Trustee of the National Gallery for a period of four years from 2 February 2008.
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Fascinating discoveries revealed in exhibition – New database of paintings in UK museums and galleries – Discover the richness of our public collections. The exhibition will be on view through 10 February 2008 .
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By the early 19th century, the practice of painting oil sketches in the open air was widespread across Europe. Oil sketching was seen primarily as training for the hand and eye, with artists exhorted to paint quickly to capture fleeting effects of light and atmosphere.
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This exhibition, the first of its kind at the National Gallery, sets out to demonstrate that the best stained glass from the Renaissance period fully reflected – and even rivalled – the latest developments in painting, while exploiting to the full the vibrant properties of light. The exhibition will be on view through 17 February 2008.
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National Gallery, London will present an exhibitions entitled 'Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass', on view from 7 November 2007 to 17 February 2008.
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From autumn 2007, digital images of the National Gallery's entire collection will be available free of charge for scholarly publications. In addition, the Gallery's acclaimed scholarly journal, the National Gallery Technical Bulletin, will be made available online for subscription or purchase.
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For the first time in Britain, a major exhibition will show Renaissance painting and sculpture in the artistic, cultural and political contexts of the volatile last century of the Sienese Republic.
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