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Give the gift of art with this beautifully illustrated volume tracing the development of European painting over six centuries through one hundred pictures-each significant and by a different artist

How do experts spot masterpieces? Paintings are not always signed or noted in historical records, so how can we tell an obscure gem from an altered image? Through a series of examples and processes, this title draws the reader into the complex issues confronted by gallery professionals.

Angels are an integral part of Christian art, performing a multitude of roles. Massed together they may form a heavenly choir, glorifying the Virgin Mary or commenting on the surrounding action. This guide helps readers identify angels and their significance in a painting - be it from the National Gallery or from other collections.

Frames often catch the eye of visitors to galleries, yet labels and catalogues rarely comment on them. This informative guide offers insight into the various forms of frame housing some of the finest paintings in the National Gallery Collection. It includes some of the finest examples of the frame-makers craft.

If the painting could talk... what tales would they tell? This art book is designed to be read like a novel. It gets you up close and personal to individual masterpieces in the National Gallery, London. It unlocks the paintings' hidden histories, which have often been buried in articles, archives or reports.

On Wednesday 23 August 1939, the National Gallery closed its doors to the public, not knowing when they would open again. The paintings were to be secretly evacuated in a relocation that took only eleven days. The last shipment left Trafalgar Square on 2 September, the day before war was declared. This book tells the story of the National Gallery.

Explores the ways in which artists have used color, and describes the pigments that are characteristic of a particular period, the effect of the chosen medium on color, and how the development of fresh pigments extended the palette.

Discusses and describes the material nature of paintings, how they age and the main types of conservation treatment carried out on panel and canvas paintings, along with some of the problems involved in cleaning and restoration.

Catalogues paintings from Venice made between 1540 and 1600. This volume includes pictures in the National Gallery, London such as: Titian's Vendramin Family venerating a Relic of the True Cross and his Death of Actaeon; Veronese's Family of Darius and his four Allegories, and Tintoretto's Origin of the Milky Way.

How faces are captured shows in striking ways the artistic aims of those who painted them. But how can the depiction of a face suggest a personality? This book tackles this and other questions, and introduces such issues as the ideals of beauty and how portrait painters have captured a likeness and convey character.

Accompanies the National Gallery's display of its Italian Renaissance paintings - one of the richest collections of its kind in the world. This book focuses on Italian masterpieces made between 1250 and 1500. It includes highlights such as Leonardo's "Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" and "Saint John the Baptist".