With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation ...

It’s hard to get excited about this exhibition of only 45 pictures against aubergine-purple walls on the second floor of the National Portrait Gallery. The premise is straightforward, and at ...

Greek police officers walk outside the National Gallery, as Nikolaos Papadopoulos, member of parliament of the small right-wing Niki party has detained after he allegedly attacked art works being ...

However, this act of censorship is not taking place in a gallery in Israel, where it is illegal to fly the Palestinian flag. No, this censorship is at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA).

but it was the portrait of Princess Anne that grabbed our attention. In the beautiful photo, taken in 1980, the then-30-year-old Princess gazes into the distance. While she looks wonderful in the ...

Portraits from the set can now be found in various places, including the National Portrait Gallery, Eton College, Knebworth House and several private collections. The location of the full set of ...

Then, in 1980, the National Gallery purchased the piece in an auction at Christie’s for £2.5 million (a bargain by today’s standards, but at that time, a record-breaking price).

Samson and Delilah was purchased by the National Gallery for £2.5m (around £13.7m today) in 1980, then the second-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction. However, 45 years after it ...

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Concerns over whether Peter Paul Rubens painted the Samson and Delilah picture in the National Gallery have been reignited by new evidence. The painting depicts the Old Testament story where Israelite ...

Minister for the Arts Patrick O’Donovan has said the National Gallery’s purchase of an unused scanner costing almost €125,000 is among issues that have caused “huge embarrassment” to his ...

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