National Gallery

London Gallery Launches Interactive Digital Art Gallery

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:35:50 -0500

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.

Dame Judi Dench Supports Grand Tour In York

ruzik_tuzik — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:56:17 -0500

The National Gallery and Hewlett-Packard (HP) in collaboration with York Art Gallery unveiled the Grand Tour in York.

London Gallery Exhibits ’Love’

ruzik_tuzik — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:50:12 -0500

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?

Italy's Divisionist Painters Exhibited At London Gallery

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:45:31 -0500

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.

London Gallery Exhibits Works By Alison Watt

ruzik_tuzik — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:22:19 -0600

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.

Marchioness of Normanby Appointed as a Trustee of the National Gallery

seher — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:08:18 -0600

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.

Discoveries: New Research Into British Collections

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:04:27 -0600

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 .

National Gallery Exhibits Landscape Oil Sketch

ruzik_tuzik — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:58:56 -0600

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.

London Gallery Exhibits German Renaissance Stained Glass

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:33:45 -0600

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.

London Gallery Presents German Renaissance Stained Glass

ruzik_tuzik — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:15:03 -0500

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.

National Gallery Images Available For Free

ruzik_tuzik — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:49:36 -0500

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.

Renaissance Siena At London Gallery

ruzik_tuzik — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:14:15 -0500

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.