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Plan your visit | Visiting | National Gallery, London
WEBThe 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)
Top 20 paintings | Stories | National Gallery, London
WEB4. 'The Fighting Temeraire' by Joseph Mallord William Turner. Set against a blazing sunset, the last voyage of the Temeraire – a warship which had played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar – takes on a greater symbolic meaning, as the age of sail gives way to the age of steam.
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) | National Gallery, London
WEBVan Gogh is today one of the most popular of the Post-Impressionist painters, although he was not widely appreciated during his lifetime. He is now famed for the great vitality of his works which are characterised by expressive and emotive use of brilliant colour and energetic application of impastoed paint. The traumas of his life, documented in his letters, have tended to dominate and ...
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WEBExplore our most popular masterpieces. Rachel Ruysch’s elegant bouquet carries a breath of autumn. Pear blossom, peonies, honeysuckle and columbine all bloom early in the year, but the burnt orange and deep green of the lilies, the seed pod straggling over the edge of the shelf, the ripe wheat and the dry, veined leaves turn away thou...
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) | National Gallery, London
WEBPainter, sculptor, architect, designer, theorist, engineer and scientist, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most famous images in European art. Though many of his works were never finished, and even fewer have survived, he influenced generations of artists and he continues to be revered as a universal genius.Leonardo was …
Raphael (1483 - 1520) | National Gallery, London
WEBFor 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.. Raphael (Raffaello Santi) was born in Urbino where his father, Giovanni ...
The Virgin of the Rocks | NG1093 - The National Gallery, London
WEBThese three panels all came from an elaborate, and partly sculpted, altarpiece that was made for the church of San Francesco Grande, Milan. By the time that Leonardo and his associates were commissioned to provide paintings in 1483, the sculptor Giacomo del Maiano had already finished the sculptures.
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