The Elector Palatine, Johann Wilhelm, had married Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, daughter of the Grand Duke Cosimo III of Tuscany, in 1691. This is the preparatory sketch for a large composition in a series of probably fourteen paintings by Pellegrini illust ...

Create your own bespoke print of Bronzino’s An Allegory with Venus & Cupid from our collection. About this painting An Allegory with Venus & Cupid, about 1545 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1860 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s An Allegory with Venus & Time from our collection. About this painting An Allegory with Venus & Time, about 1754-8 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1969 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

In the first decades of the 20th century, painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of New York City from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri's insistence that artists should make 'pictures from life', the Ashcanners renounced the polished academic style taught in art schools of the time. Instead they practised a more urgent manner, seeking to catch the ebb & flow of life in urban America. Some of them also produced vivid landscapes with a highly saturated colour palette & portraits. An American Experiment: George Bellows & the Ashcan Painters introduces the painters of the Ashcan School & the key characteristics & themes of their work. Detailed commentaries are provided for twelve significant paintings by George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, & John Sloan. In their visual contemplation of early-20th-century New York, these artists offer deep insights into the nature of urban life not only in their time but also in our own. David Peters Corbett is Dean, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, University of East Anglia. He was founding director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Modern Studies, University of York. Katherine Bourguignon is associate curator, Terra Foundation for American Art Europe, Paris. Christopher Riopelle is Curator of Post-1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London. An American Experiment: George Bellows & the Ashcan Painters was published alongside the exhibition An American Experiment: George Bellows & the Ashcan Painters 1900 –1918, at the National Gallery, London, 3 March-30 May 2011. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Filippino Lippi’s An Angel Adoring from our collection. About this painting An Angel Adoring, about 1495 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1876 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Associate of Leonardo da Vinci (Francesco Napoletano?), An Angel in Green with a Vielle from our collection. About this painting An Angel in Green with a Vielle, about 1490-9 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1898 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

This painting, together with ' An Angel in Green with a Vielle' came from the same altarpiece as ' The Virgin of the Rocks' by Leonardo. It may have decorated the outside of a shutter on the right. Leonardo is likely to have played some part in the design but the execution is by an associate. ...

The painting is part of a series of Apostles & represents either Saint Thomas or Saint Matthias, both of whose attribute is a spear. Several other Apostles from the series are known. The gritty realism of the hand & dirty nails is typical of the work ...

The unidentified figure looking down from the spandrel of a painted arch is probably a fragment of a mural decoration. Such a figure is likely to represent a prophet or ancestor of Christ who prefigured the New Testament subject matter in the chapel below ...

The picture is a caprice including motifs drawn from the courtyard of the Doge's Palace in Venice, as seen from the south (or waterfront end). The staircase recalls the Scala dei Giganti & the building on the left the Arco Foscari. Three drawings by Guar ...