Highlights from the collection. On demand for Members. Virtual tours. Friday, 12 November Online event. Read more. Book now. Picturing the nude. Friday, 5 November - Friday, 19 November How and why do artists depict the naked body?
Find out with Dr Carlo Corsato on discussion tours, onsite at the Gallery. Women artists. Monday, 1 November - Monday, 6 December Hogarth: Life in Progress. The pictures were displayed at Angerstein's house at Pall Mall until a dedicated gallery building was constructed.
The size of the building — Angerstein's house — was compared unfavourably with other national art galleries, such as the Louvre in Paris, and ridiculed in the press. There had been lengthy discussion about the best site for the Gallery, and Trafalgar Square was eventually chosen as it was considered to be at the very centre of London.
The new building finally opened in Next: A Gallery for all. Selected masterpieces from the collection. The Arnolfini Portrait. This must be one of the most famous and intriguing paintings in the world. A richly dressed man and woman stand in a private room. They are probably Giovanni di Nicolao di Arnolfini, an Italian merchant working in Bruges, and his wife. Although the room is totally plausible — as if Jan van Eyck ha Room Venus and Mars.
Sandro Botticelli. Venus, the goddess of love, looks over at her lover Mars. She is alert and dignified, while he — the god of war — is utterly lost in sleep. This picture was probably ordered to celebrate a marriage, a Doge Leonardo Loredan. Giovanni Bellini. Leonardo Loredan knows that he is being looked at, but he does not return our gaze. He is the doge, the ruler of the Venetian Republic; elected in , he ruled until his death in He wears white silk damask robes woven with gold and silver metal thread, clothing reserved for the most splend The Virgin of the Rocks.
Leonardo da Vinci. All kneel to adore the infant Christ, who in turn raises his hand to bless them. They are crowded in a grotto overhung with rocks and dense with vegetation.
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