National Galleryさんのイラストまとめ

‘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

Thinking of getting creative at home?

🐲 On #StGeorgesDay try recreating Uccello's 'Saint George and the Dragon' with the help of some cuddly toys, just like Christine, our Head of Curatorial, did!

Learn more about the painting here: https://t.co/eTW1QQ6jhb
#MuseumFromHome

🐲 Happy #StGeorgesDay! Saint George taming then slaying a dragon is one of the most fantastic saints‘ legends of the Middle Ages.

Here Uccello has compressed two parts of the story into one small and strange picture. Find out how here: https://t.co/eTW1QQ6jhb

#Titian called these paintings the 'poesie' because he drew on Classical poetry for their subject matter, and he imagined them working as visual poems. Find out why these were the most ambitious and magnificent works of his career: https://t.co/nhXRUkB9R2 #MuseumFromHome

El Greco died #OnThisDay in 1614. Born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete (then ruled by Venice), he was known as ‘The Greek’ (El Greco). He trained in Venice, where he developed his intense, colourful Mannerist style: https://t.co/b2BqanlntT

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was born #OnThisDay in 1732. This is an early work by him, which was presented to Louis XV at Versailles in 1753. It illustrates an episode from the classical story of Cupid and Psyche: https://t.co/SgO78LiOJF

#Titian called these paintings the 'poesie' because he drew on Classical poetry for their subject matter, and he imagined them working as visual poems. Find out why these were the most ambitious and magnificent works of his career: https://t.co/nhXRUkB9R2 #MuseumFromHome

🎨 Happy birthday to Vincent Van Gogh, born #OnThisDay in 1853! He is now famed for the great vitality of his works which are characterised by expressive and emotive use of brilliant colour and energetic application of impastoed paint: https://t.co/VGLa5hGSyf

Anthony van Dyck was born #OnThisDay in 1599. At over 3.5 metres high, his 'Equestrian Portrait of Charles 1' is one of our giants. Over the last year we've cleaning, relined and retouched the painting, filming its journey along the way: https://t.co/7tgb5tvajy

Vivid, quick touches of colour animate the canvas of this painting by Berthe Morisot, a French painter who exhibited with the Impressionists.

Find out more about 'Girl on a Divan' at our 10-minute talk today at 4pm in Room 44: https://t.co/SZRo7heCcG #5WomenArtists