National Galleryさんのイラストまとめ

This October, in partnership with @citylit, we're taking part in this year’s Mental Wealth Festival.

Join us online from 5 Oct for four unique events using paintings in the collection to explore discussions and promote good mental health through art: https://t.co/KMqwa0pDia

Find quiet contemplation and wonder in the familiar with Zurbarán's simple still life.

Join Christina Bradstreet from our Learning team for a slow look at 'A Cup of Water and a Rose'. Watch the full film here: https://t.co/Nwx77tQeWO

‘Everyone is a sinner’ writes our Curatorial Fellow Joost Joustra in ‘#Sin: The Art of Transgression’. You can learn more about sin within the history of art in our exhibition catalogue: https://t.co/hIOfniMITe

Vincent van Gogh died #OnThisDay in 1890. Today, he is one of the most popular Post-Impressionist painters, although he was not widely appreciated during his lifetime. He is now famed for the great vitality of his works, characterised by his emotive use of brilliant colour.

Escape to the sandy bank of a quiet shore for a slow look at 'An Estuary in Northern France'.

Looking for something a bit longer? Try our 5 minute version here: https://t.co/I8h7EFTnyg
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Explore how artists have painted healers throughout history, from biblical figures to eminent doctors who made groundbreaking discoveries: https://t.co/iDqFfXcWtO
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Peter Paul Rubens was born #OnThisDay in 1577. Rubens was a remarkable individual. He was a hugely successful painter whose workshop produced a staggering number of works, but he also played an important diplomatic role in 17th-century European politics: https://t.co/6I4b5GliFW

Alexandre Calame was born #OnThisDay in 1810. This is a view of Lake Thun on the River Aare in Switzerland. Raised near Lake Geneva, Calame knew the Swiss landscape well and soon became the leading Swiss landscape artist of his generation: https://t.co/fcUVUPisWx

The theme for today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg is dogs! 🐶

From loyal hounds to fluffy tail-waggers, dogs have been painted many times throughout our collection. Here are some examples from Georges Seurat, Catharina van Hemessen, Jacob Jordaens and Gainsborough.

Thomas Gainsborough was born #OnThisDay in 1727 in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was one of the leading portrait painters in England in the later 18th century. Here you can see the earliest known self portrait in oil by Gainsborough, and the only known one of him with his family.