Christina, younger daughter of Christian II of Denmark & Isabella of Austria, sister of Charles V, was born in 1522. In 1533 she married by proxy the Duke of Milan, who died in 1535. Holbein visited Brussels in 1538, & for three hours Christina sat fo ...

The ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, identifiable by the asp at her breast, who was known for her beauty & intellect is here depicted lounging on a divan. When it was bequeathed to the Gallery this painting was described as coming from the School of Fon ...

Create your own bespoke print of Théo van Rysselberghe’s Coastal Scene from our collection. About this painting Coastal Scene, about 1892 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 2000 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 Flemish’s Cognoscenti in a Room hung with Pictures from our collection. About this painting Cognoscenti in a Room hung with Pictures, about 1620 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1889 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 Collected Writings on Velazquez a leading authority on the Spanish master Diego Velazquez discusses this enigmatic artist & explores the mysteries presented by his paintings. The essays collected here, written over the course of Jonathan Brown's distinguished career, include some which are published in English for the first time & one which has never before been published. Two themes unite them. The first concerns the changing relationship between Velazquez & his patron Philip IV, which provides a framework for Brown to interpret the painter's career. The centrepiece of this relationship is Velaquez's masterpiece, Las Meninas, & this painting is the subject of two essays. The second theme is the problem of attributions & the related issue of Velazquez's innovative technique. Since Velazquez was not a prolific painter, questions of authenticity become increasingly contentious. Brown considers this matter in its widest

Dimensions & participates in the debate about individual attributions. Jonathan Brown is the Carroll & Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He is the author of the standard biography on Velazquez, Velazquez, Painter & Courtier.

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Create your own bespoke print of Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas’s Combing the Hair (' La Coiffure') from our collection. About this painting Combing the Hair (' La Coiffure'), about 1896 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1937 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. ...

Artists of the Barbizon School often used small wood panels like this one when they wanted to work out of doors directly in front of their chosen motif. Easily portable & more sturdy than canvas or paper, the panels allowed the painter to move quickly f ...

Four figures in historical costume are shown, but the specific subject of this picture has not been identified. The authenticity of this painting has been doubted. It was possibly painted by an artist imitating Monticelli in the 1870s. ...

This is one of a series of edifying historical, legendary & allegorical subjects painted in a room in the Petrucci palace in Siena in about 1509. Two others
- ' Penelope with the Suitors' by Pintoricchio & ' The Triumph of Chastity' also by Signorelli -
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The Volscians are besieging Rome (left background). Coriolanus, after being exiled from the city, is acting as their general & is preparing to attack. He was persuaded to desist by Valeria, his mother Volumnia, his wife Virgilia & his children. (Plutarch, ' Life of Coriolanus'). ...