The portrait is a late work, probably around 1570, & the most famous of Moroni's portraits; it was already celebrated in the 17th century, when it was in the Grimani collection in Venice. The colourful costume of the tailor is contrasted with the black material marked with chalk lines that he prepares to cut. Most of the sitters in Moroni's later portraits are dressed in black in the Spanish fashion that persisted into the following century. The tailor's head, lit from above to the left, dominates the painting, the eyes, as in the majority of Moroni's portraits, looking directly at the spectator with shrewd appraisal.   ...

Create your own bespoke print of Peder Balke’s The Tempest from our collection. About this painting The Tempest, about 1862 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 2010 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 pocket mirror features a detail from Monet’s The Thames below Westminster from the National Gallery Collection. This simple yet elegant mirror has the painting detail on one side & the mirror on the other. About this painting The Thames below Westminster, about 1871 Oil on canvas, 47 x 73 cm © The National Gallery, London. Bequeathed by Lord Astor of Hever, 1971 ...

This poster print features Claude-Oscar Monet's The Thames Below Westminster. This is one of the works produced by Monet when, like Pissarro & Daubigny, he moved to London during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1). Pissarro worked mainly in south London, while Monet painted the parks of central London & the River Thames. Here he shows the misty atmosphere of the capital on a spring day, with the Houses of Parliament & Westminster Bridge in the background. They are contrasted with the jetty in the foreground casting broken shadows on the river, & the new foliage of the trees on the Embankment to the right. About this painting The Thames Below Westminster, about 1871 Oil on canvas, 47 x 73 cm © Bequeathed by Lord Astor of Hever, 1971 This poster displays the artist's name & the National Gallery logo at the bottom. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Claude Monet’s The Thames below Westminster from our collection. About this painting The Thames below Westminster, about 1871 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1971 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. ...

The 12 main panels of the altarpiece, one of the largest to be commissioned in 14th-century Florence, are in the National Gallery Collection. The predella shows scenes from the life of Saint Peter & is dispersed in different collections. The painting was commissioned for the church of San Pier Maggiore in Florence, probably by the Albizzi family. The accounts of 1370 show that a certain Niccolò, probably Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, designed the altarpiece. It was probably painted by Jacopo di Cione & assistants. It was completed in 1371. In the centre of the composition are Christ & the Virgin, dressed in white & gold, & seated upon a canopied throne surrounded by angels. The panels to each side are densely crowded with saints; to the left a prominent Saint Peter carries a model of San Pier Maggiore. The middle tier of the altarpiece, which would have been supported by heavy buttresses, showed (from left to right) the Nativity, the Adoration of the Kings, the Resurrection, the Maries at the Sepulchre, the Ascension & Pentecost. In the three pinnacles above, the Trinity appeared in the centre with adoring angels on each side. A later, more fluent, Florentine version of the theme is ' The Coronation of the Virgin' by Lorenzo Monaco. ...

King David saw the beautiful Bathsheba bathing; he sent her husband to the wars to get him killed, & then married her. As one of his less commendable exploits this earned him a divine rebuke (2 Samuel 11: 2). David is seen on the roof of the building at ...

Venus, the goddess of love, is shown with the Three Graces (the daughters of Zeus who personified beauty, charm & grace) & Cupid. Reni designed the picture & executed parts of it (at least the figure of Venus). The painting is perhaps identifiable wi ...

Create your own bespoke print of Diego Velázquez’s The Toilet of Venus (' The Rokeby Venus') from our collection. About this painting The Toilet of Venus (' The Rokeby Venus'), 1647-51 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1906 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. ...

The people attempted to build a tower which would reach the heavens. But God humbled their pride by confusing their language so that no one could communicate, & the building ceased. Old Testament (Genesis 11: 1-9). Some of the costumes are apparently int ...