Step into 14th-century Siena and discover how artists broke from tradition and pioneered new ways of storytelling. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime celebration marking the rise of Western painting.

Step into 14th-century Siena and discover how artists broke from tradition and pioneered new ways of storytelling. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime celebration marking the rise of Western painting.

While en-plein-air painting came into its own with the art of the Impressionists in the 19th century, the tradition of making images of landscapes outside is one that can be traced back to the 16th ...

We're open until 9pm every Friday, so you can take in our collection and exhibitions after hours, and enjoy special events throughout the month Join us on 22 November for an evening of drawing with ...

'The Triumph of Art' by artist Jeremy Deller is a nationwide performance that marks how festivals are part and parcel of art, culture and civic life, and that art and artists can be catalysts of ...

The 17th century was the era of the Baroque, a style bringing passion, colour and drama to painting, sculpture, architecture ...

Martha Hirst was the National Gallery’s first housemaid. Her job was to keep the Gallery clean and manage the fires that ...

Brixton Life Drawing is the brainchild of homeware textile designers Bex and Anya. They met through work and in December 2019 made their life drawing dreams a reality. They offer both in person and ...

The conventional timeline of artists who are sometimes considered as ‘Old Masters’ or ‘Great Artists’. Today’s art history attempts to question these rules of ‘greatness’, considering issues of gender ...

Vincent Van Gogh’s career as an artist spanned barely ten years. Before he took up painting at 27, he was a preacher, before ...

Born in Antwerp, Jan van Kessel the Elder belonged to a dynasty of famous painters. His grandfather was Jan Brueghel the Elder, and David Teniers the Younger was his uncle. He was a pupil of the ...

Johannes Vermeer is one of the great Dutch masters, though only about 35 paintings by him are known. Born in Delft in 1632, he may have been a pupil of local history painter Leonaert Bramer. Vermeer ...