Great Art Explained totally unique merchandise available here – Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! I started “Great Art Explained” during lockdown. My aim is to make videos which focus on one great artwork. I want to present…
Read MoreGreat Art Explained totally unique merchandise available here – There is a longer (30 minute) version of this video on my site (https://youtu.be/ElWG0_kjy_Y) which is better quality and deals with questions like “Why doesn’t she have eyebrows?” and “Is she…
Read MoreCaroline Campbell, the National Gallery’s Director of Collections and Research, discusses the early Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina’s painting, ‘Saint Jerome in his Study’. Paintings mentioned: 🎨 Antonello da Messina, ‘Saint Jerome in his Study’, about 1475 Link: 🖌️ Find…
Read MoreClara Davarpanah, one of our Gallery Educators, discusses Thomas Gainsborough’s ‘The Painter’s Daughters Chasing a Butterfly’ in this bite sized art history lecture. Find out more on our website: Subscribe to our channel and never miss a video: Follow us…
Read MoreWhat made John Constable’s ‘The Hay Wain’ so radical for its time? Vivmar Curatorial Fellow Emily Burns explains Constable’s groundbreaking use of colour and skilled composition, and how he set about painting this masterpiece in only 5 months. The view…
Read MoreCurator Letizia Treves gives a short talk on Orazio Gentileschi’s ‘The Finding of Moses’. Gentileschi may not be as widely known today as his daughter Artemisia, whose Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria hangs in the Gallery, but he…
Read MoreClara, one of the National Gallery’s Young Producers, presents a 10-minute talk about Joachim Beuckelaer’s ‘The Four Elements: Fire’. This is one of a set of four pictures which take as their theme the four elements of ‘Earth’, ‘Water’, ‘Air’…
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