This fascinating exhibition focuses on one of the National Gallery’s greatest treasures, Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait, the first Netherlandish picture ever purchased by the Gallery, back in 1842.

Elizabeth Peyton’s Liam + Noel Gallagher, one of her most significant portraits of the Oasis brothers, sold on the low part ...

Michelangelo, da Vinci, Van Gogh and company were pretty brilliant at hiding secret messages in their paintings Finding secret messages in paintings There’s a reason why masterpiece works of art spark ...

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Step foot in the National Gallery’s new-look Sainsbury Wing and you’ll be greeted with a genuine sense of anticipation. A sanctuary from the pigeons, buskers and walking tours crowding ...

After unveiling a plaque to mark the re-opening, Charles and Camilla looked at the gallery’s new restaurant before touring many of the works on show, including the Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van ...

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait (1434). Collection of the National Gallery, London. Van Eyck’s 1434 The Arnolfini Marriage Portrait took on the title as the world’s first masterpiece in ...

The painting in question is called The Arnolfini Portrait by Dutch painter Jan van Eyck. It is a relatively small oil painting, dating back to 1434, depicting what is believed to be the wedding shoot ...

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, ... The main character of this painting is said to be Giovanni Arnolfini, a wealthy merchant, ...

Unlocking Van Eyck’s ‘Arnolfini Portrait’, One of World’s Most Enigmatic Paintings Some juicy details are hiding in plain sight! Detail of Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait (1434).

Reflected and distorted in this sphere (shades of Jan van Eyck’s “The Arnolfini Portrait”) are a ceiling light, a window, empty shelves, a doorway and an examination chair with a red light, ...

The picture we have come to call the Arnolfini Portrait is one of the best known, best loved, and most reproduced, copied, satirised and speculated upon in the world. Painted in Bruges by Jan van Eyck ...