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"Published to accompany the exhibition: "Sea star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery" 13 April - 11 August 2019"--Title page verso.

Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) each produced groundbreaking paintings, marked by pictorial and technical innovations, that are among the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Exploring the fruitful dynamic between Mantegna's inventive compositional approach and interest in classical antiquity and Bellini's passion for landscape painting, this fascinating volume examines how these two artists, who were also brothers-in-law, influenced and responded to each other's work. Full of new insights and captivating juxtapositions-including comparisons of each of the artist's depictions of the Agony in the Garden and the Presentation to the Temple-this study reveals that neither Mantegna's nor Bellini's achievements can be fully understood in isolation and that their continuous creative exchanges shaped the work of both.

Introducing a masterpiece from the National Gallery's collection, this compact and beautifully illustrated book explores the story behind Monet's The Water-Lily Pond.

This compact book tells the story behind one of the National Gallery's most celebrated masterpieces: The Virgin of the Rocks.

Introducing a masterpiece from the National Gallery's collection, this compact and beautifully illustrated book explores the story behind Holbein's Ambassadors.

The first comprehensive survey of the career of Katrina Palmer, the fourth Artist in Residence at the National Gallery.

An overdue introduction to one of the Americas’ most eminent nineteenth-century artists, the Mexican painter José María Velasco

An introduction to Mantegna’s monumental series of canvases that depict a magnificent procession in honour of Julius Caesar’s victories over Gaul.

A thought-provoking exploration of Constable's The Hay Wain and its social, political and artistic significance.

An exploration of Parmigianino’s greatest Roman painting, TheVision of Saint Jerome, illuminated the artist’s dynamic process of invention and the dramatic story around its creation.

Published in the National Gallery’s Bicentenary year, this is the story of how one of the world’s finest collections of paintings was formed by (and for) the people of Britain

Introducing a masterpiece from the National Gallery's collection, this compact and beautifully illustrated book explores the story behind Van Gogh's Sunflowers.

A celebration of the National Gallery’s history of collaborating with contemporary artists, with a particular focus on David Hockney

The years prior to Van Gogh's death in 1890 were pivotal to the painter's brief artistic career. He was working in the South of France and intent on creating new work which would advance his career. He set about developing compositions that were informed by the natural world surrounding him, by the poets and lovers he encountered in literature, and by the individual models he was depicting. The process of Van Gogh's imaginative transformations has never been explored in an exhibition and this will provide the opportunity to present significant new insights into the much-loved painter's life.   The catalogue features an incredible range of both ambitious canvases and important works on paper. It presents new research on themes including the artist's innovative approach to exhibiting his work and the varied literary sources which inspired his characters and compositions. These topics are rarely written about in relation to this well-known artist and are bound to expand both scholarly and public interpretations of Van Gogh's remarkable oeuvre.   Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press. Exhibition Schedule: The National Gallery, London 14 September 2024-19 January 2025

The National Gallery Companion Guide celebrates over 200 masterpieces from one of the finest art collections in the world. The reader is guided through the history of the Western European painting tradition, from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, with engaging commentaries that illuminate each artist's unique contribution.   This comprehensive, newly designed edition has been revised and expanded to feature recent acquisitions by Artemisia Gentileschi, Edgar Degas and Thomas Lawrence, alongside much-loved works by artists ranging from Leonardo and Raphael to Van Gogh and Picasso.

A focus on Caravaggio’s last work, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, telling the story of an empowered female saint

Accompanies the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 13 September 2023–7 January 2024.   Céline Condorelli’s practice addresses the boundaries between public and private, art and function, labour and leisure, in order to reimagine what culture can be and the role of artists within it. As the National Gallery’s 2023 Artist in Residence, she was invited to respond to its collection and that of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter.   Condorelli interrogates the role of museums as ‘machines for looking’ which guide audiences in how they perceive and value art. Using sculpture, architecture and installation, her art makes interventions in the ways people navigate space and highlights the act of exhibiting itself. This book presents a new body of work which focuses on the act of seeing, as well as pages created by Condorelli that document her research into the materials, spaces and history of the National Gallery. These are complemented by an essay by curator Priyesh Mistry and an interview with the artist by Lara Goodband.

The second book in the "Discover" series, this illuminating study explores Liotard's little-known The Lavergne Family Breakfast (1754), widely regarded as a pastel masterpiece

This catalogue introduces the little-known Renaissance artist Pesellino, exploring his exquisite miniatures, his narrative cassone panels, and grand altarpieces

The first book to focus on Dame Paula Rego's little-known monumental triptych, Crivelli's Garden, featuring an original short story by novelist Chloe Aridjis, new photography, and an art historical essay

Quinten Massys' An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess') is one of the Renaissance's most famous faces. In a fresh review of the iconic image, this book unveils the painting's original context: its status as a pioneering work of satirical art, its debt to Leonardo da Vinci's grotesque drawings, and what it tells us about the period's complex attitudes towards women, age and normative beauty. The painting and its partner, An Old Man, are parodic portraits that mock the supposed lust and vanity of older women. Yet a closer look also reveals a figure defiantly flouting conventions and a painter subverting artistic expectations. The publication traces the eventful afterlife and enduring power of this seminal image: how she gained her nickname 'The Ugly Duchess' and inspired John Tenniel's much-loved illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), capturing the imagination of generations of readers. Exhibition: National Gallery, London, UK (16.03.2023-11.06.2023).

Exploring the life, imagery and lasting appeal of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), this landmark book features a core of important historic paintings representing the saint by Giotto, Sassetta, Caravaggio, Zurbaran and El Greco.

"Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-naturalism expressed in varying degrees, from modest distortions of reality to pure abstraction. The decades that followed, up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation. Concentrating on this period of great upheaval, this book will explore the constructive dialogue between painting and sculpture, and the influential roles played by three giants of the era, Paul Câezanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, across European art as a whole. While acknowledging the centrality of Paris as a cultural capital, it will also uniquely highlight other centres of artistic ferment in Europe, from Brussels and Barcelona to Berlin and Vienna, and track the variety of routes into modernism in the early twentieth century. This fully illustrated catalogue will contain four essays, introductions to each city of ferment and biographies of the artists. Exhibition: The National Gallery, London, UK (25.03.-13.08.2023)."--

An exploration of Turner as an artist-traveler, in relation to two important European harbor scenes

A unique and compelling view of the work of leading contemporary artist Nalini Malani through the lens of her most recent commission

The first in a new series from the National Gallery, this book reveals the extraordinary story behind Manet's portrait of his only pupil Eva Gonzalès.

An accessible introduction to American painter Winslow Homer, examining his work through the lens of conflict

A significant publication of original writing on Lucian Freud, including interviews with leading contemporary artists, marking the 100th anniversary of his birth

The annual journal of scientific research from the National Gallery

An exploration of the fascinating parallels and differences between Picasso's Woman with a Book and Ingres's Madame Moitessier