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This is the central panel of a large altarpiece made for the church of San Pier Maggiore, Florence. Christ crowns the Virgin, after her body and soul have been taken up to heaven. This was an ...

Willem Cornelisz. Duyster was born and worked in Amsterdam. Because of the loss of the city’s guild records, his early career remains mysterious. He may have trained with Pieter Codde, and it is ...

Holbein was one of the most accomplished portraitists of the 16th century. He spent two periods of his life in England (1526-8 and 1532-43), portraying the nobility of the Tudor court. Holbein's ...

This triple portrait was intended as a model for a full-length statue of Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1585–1642), who became Cardinal in 1622 and the Chief Minister of France in 1624. He ...

The wind seems to chase the clouds across this painting, letting through a fitful sun to light up the tumbling water for one moment. In another it will be gone, falling instead on the sheep on the ...

These three men are probably the painter brothers Antoine, Louis and Mathieu Le Nain. Their noses and chins suggest a family resemblance, and the way that the central man stares out at us recalls the ...

He was born and worked in Antwerp. He seems to have shared his studio with his elder brother, Gillis. Later he settled in Hoboken. He was a marine, landscape and small-scale figure painter. He painted ...

Two paintings – one by the foremost figure in Swiss landscape painting during the 19th century and the other by the leading Norwegian artist of his day – have been generously gifted to the Nation. 'At ...

A reflection on the artists and National Gallery exhibitions and paintings that have been part of David Hockney’s long career ...

This engaging little scene, full of lifelike detail comes from a series of panels that tell the story of the life of John the Baptist, the prophet who preached the coming of Christ as the Messiah.

Christ’s body has been taken down from the Cross and lies on the white shroud in which he will be placed in the tomb. Behind him is the Virgin Mary, eyes raised to heaven in grief, and alongside her ...