Major works from around 1500 by Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna, Botticelli, Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, and Fra Bartolomeo.
history of painting
Everyman’s journey through life, starting as a fallen human, moving with the haywain through sinful ways, and ending in Hell and eternal torment.
Everyday domestic scenes, the music hall, Pierrots performing at Brighton, and townscapes are among his paintings made after the Camden Town Group.
Fading and colour change in paints has been well-described since 1400. Shown here in examples using indigo, it wasn’t properly investigated until the late 19th century.
Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of this innovative Florentine painter, a contemporary of Botticelli.
Don Quixote is shown a bust, product of an enchanter, which answers questions truthfully, but not on Fridays. Everyone is amazed, apart from Sancho Panza.
Twentieth-century paintings of Spring, from Renoir to Grant Wood, with the help of Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Granville Redmond and others.
This is when the year should really begin. A celebration of the real New Year from Botticelli to Pissarro, aided by Sisley, Van Gogh and others.
Around 25,000 live in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine. Here are paintings of traditional life in the rugged and snowy terrain.
Crammed into this crowded street scene in one of London’s leafy suburbs is a detailed account of the breadth and depth of contemporary Victorian society.
The Eclectic Light Company 