The National Gallery, London
WEBDiscover the masterpieces of European art at the Nation's Gallery, London. Browse the collection online, book a visit, or join the conversation.
Exhibitions | National Gallery, London
WEB4 October 2024 – 12 January 2025. Immerse yourself in 200 years of extraordinary National Gallery stories. Free.
Top 20 paintings | Stories | National Gallery, London
WEBRoom 41. Bacchus and Ariadne. Titian. One of the most famous paintings in the National Gallery, Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne illustrates a story told by the classical authors Ovid and Catullus. The Cretan princess Ariadne has been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship sails away in the distance.
Plan your visit | Visiting | National Gallery, London
WEB6 hours ago · Plan your visit. The National Gallery is free to visit. Booking is recommended, some walk up tickets are available. Open daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm (Closed 24–26 December and 1 January) Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN.
Events | National Gallery, London
WEBThe National Gallery at 200: Past, Present, Future. Category: Course | Online | From £70.50. Thursday, 22 August - Thursday, 26 September 2024. 3.30 - 5.30 pm BST. As we celebrate our 200th birthday, discover the paintings and personalities that formed the National Gallery’s collection in the past, and the ideas that shape it now.
Search the collection | Paintings | National Gallery, London
WEBSearch the collection. Search or browse our collection of more than 2,600 paintings. The "To" year should be greater than or equal to the "From" year. The "From" and "To" years should be between 1823 and 2024. In a guardroom that looks more like a Flemish tavern than a prison, a crown of thorns is being placed on Christ’s head.
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) | National Gallery, London
WEBVan Gogh was born in Holland, the son of a pastor; he travelled to London in 1873, and first visited Paris in 1874. Over the next decade he was employed in various ways, including as a lay preacher. By 1883 he had started painting, and in 1885-6 he attended the academy in Antwerp where he was impressed by Japanese prints and by the work of Rubens.
Raphael (1483 - 1520) | National Gallery, London
WEBRaphael. For centuries Raphael has been recognised as the supreme High Renaissance painter, more versatile than Michelangelo and more prolific than their older contemporary Leonardo. Though he died at 37, Raphael's example as a paragon of classicism dominated the academic tradition of European painting until the mid-19th century.
Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) | National Gallery, London
WEBThis is an old copy, badly damaged in places, of a now lost painting that Michelangelo made for Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, in 1530. The Duke had recently received three mythological paintings from Titian, including the National Gallery’s Bacchus and Ariadne, so in accepting the commission M... This painting by an unknown artist is ...
Highlights from the collection
WEBRoom 29. Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses) Paul Cezanne. Around 200 of Cezanne’s works depict male and female nude bathers, either singly or in groups, in a landscape. This large painting is one of three pictures of female bathers that Cezanne worked on during the final decade of his life.
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