Collection : National Gallery

Toutes les vidéos de la collection National Gallery

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  Love story

  • Durée : 04 min 43 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  Another mythological story is told by 16th century painter Titian here. It illustrates the legend of Bacchus and Ariadne in a rather bucolic and humorous way.

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  Off with her head

  • Durée : 04 min 41 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  This 19th century painting is another page of English history showing the execution of young Lady Jane Grey ordered by Queen Mary, Henry VIII's daughter, in order to put an end to the young lady's claim to the English throne.

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  Blood and Gore

  • Durée : 04 min 42 s
  • Date de publication : 05/2009

  The violence present in most mythological stories is here represented in two paintings from the 19th century. Each painting is like a snapshot of the key moment or climax in each of the stories dealt with.

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  Everyday life

  • Durée : 04 min 39 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  Seurat's Bathers at Asnières is a living picture of how working people relaxed on a sunny Sunday at the end of the 19th century, with, in the background, a hint at the way wealthy people did and at the social divide.

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  That's entertainment

  • Durée : 04 min 43 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  Through the description and study of two paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries, we are shown how people from different social classes entertained themselves when they were not working.

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  Ordinary lives

  • Durée : 04 min 42 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  The paintings shown here work a little like pictures from news reports showing the life of working people through the centuries, mainly working women. Turner's painting stresses the hardships of some people's lives.

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  Perspective 2

  • Durée : 04 min 44 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  Through three different works from the 17th and 19th centuries, we are shown how the representation of perspective evolved and also what techniques the artists used to create the effect of depth and movement.

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  Perspective 1

  • Durée : 04 min 38 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  Through the study of two religious but very different paintings staging the Virgin Mary we are taught how depth and perspective were gradually introduced in painting between the 14th and 15th centuries.

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  Myself and others

  • Durée : 04 min 44 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  We discover here a Van Eyck painting from the 15th century which provides information about the way wealthy people from the Low Countries lived at the time. The second part of the report deals with two of Rembrandt's self-portraits which show (...)

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  Important people

  • Durée : 04 min 37 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  This extract presents us with an important page of history at the time of Henry VIII of England, and shows Holbein's skill at painting difficult shapes and textures. It deals with the need of some people to leave a trace of their passage on (...)

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  Portrait of a couple

  • Durée : 04 min 40 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  This extract introduces the portrait genre throughout the centuries before photography existed. A detailed study of one of Gainsborough's work is presented here and helps us understand the technique used by painters to make the characters (...)

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  Mothers and sons

  • Durée : 04 min 39 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  We are here introduced to two very different ways of representing the mother and son relationship. The "heathen" way and the Christian one. Eroticism is also opposed to purity, seduction to motherly love.

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  Madonnas and goddesses

  • Durée : 04 min 43 s
  • Date de publication : 04/2009

  Our guide introduces us to the National Gallery and leads us to discover 13 paintings of women from all walks of life. He then helps us spend some time understanding various paintings representing The Virgin Mary and mythological goddesses (...)