The National Gallery in London turned two hundred in 2025, and to mark it the whole collection was rehung and a few new works came in. One of them is this pastel …
Museums & Art
- London
Canaletto’s Venice: From the National Gallery to the Real Thing
by Bubblyby Bubbly 9 min readBefore I had ever been anywhere, I knew Venice from paintings. Gold light on green water, gondolas tipped like commas across a canal, a city that looked too lovely to be a …
What I have always respected about Rembrandt is that he told the truth. Where so many painters flattered, smoothed and arranged, he set down what was in front of him, including his …
- London
The Northern Renaissance at the National Gallery: Oil, Detail and the Divine in the Everyday
by Bubblyby Bubbly 9 min readFor a long time I thought the Renaissance was an Italian story, and mostly a Florentine one. Botticelli, Michelangelo, the great dome over Florence Cathedral. It was only once I began visiting …
Walk into the medieval and early Renaissance rooms at the National Gallery in London and the walls turn to gold. Almost every panel is religious: a Virgin and Child, a saint, a …
- London
The High Renaissance at the National Gallery, London: Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael
by Bubblyby Bubbly 7 min readIn my last post on the National Gallery I followed the Early Renaissance in Florence, and ended with three quiet workshop masters: Verrocchio, who trained Leonardo, Ghirlandaio, who trained Michelangelo, and Fra …