Would you like to see a Caravaggio in Cam or a Monet in Matson?
Organisers of the National Gallery’s Art Road trip would love to know what you want to see from the collection…
Create Glos is working alongside partner organisations from across the county (Forest of Dean Working Group, Cam & Dursley Creatives, GAS Projects, The Venture: White City and Culture Matson) to welcome the travelling art studio in July 2024. Read more here.
The plan is to create some high quality reproductions of the paintings, printed on fabric, which they’ll bring along as part of the Art Road Trip. But to work out which paintings to recreate they are looking for your suggestions.
In the survey below there is a list of 45 paintings with images for you to browse through. But you can also suggest any paintings from the 2300 strong collection!
Please follow the link to complete the survey.
This survey will close on Friday 01 March at 11.00am.
Here’s little bit about the collection:
The National Gallery’s collection is in the Western European tradition of painting from the 13th to the early 20th century. The collection is made up of about 2,300 paintings. All major traditions of Western European painting are presented, from the artists of late medieval and Renaissance Italy, to the French Impressionists.
The oldest part of our collection is from the 13th to 15th centuries and include paintings by artists such as: Duccio, Uccello, van Eyck, Botticelli, Dürer and Memling. Most surviving late medieval pictures from this period are religious. They were made for altars in churches or for private devotion. Many have beautifully decorated gold-leaf backgrounds. From the 15th century, portraits and scenes from ancient history and mythology increased in importance.
From the 16th century you might recognise names such as: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Holbein, and Titian. The leading artists of this period achieved a fame that has never diminished. Especially in Italy, Renaissance painters sought to rival and surpass the artists of ancient Greece and Rome.
The Gallery’s 17th century paintings include paintings by Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, VanDyck, Velázquez, Claude, Rembrandt, and Vermeer - to name just a few! While some artists of this period looked to the art of the past for inspiration, they always imparted their own style, from the flamboyant to the austere. Religious subjects were treated in novel ways to engage the emotions of the viewer. In the Netherlands, specialist painters of still lifes, landscapes and scenes of everyday life – from elegant social gatherings to lively scenes in taverns – enjoyed great popularity.
In the 18th to early 20th century artists such as Canaletto, Goya, Turner, Constable, Ingres, Degas, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh make up some of the painters in the collection from this period. During this time although the production of grand, commissioned paintings continued, it became more common for artists to paint smaller works that were exhibited and sold through art dealers and public exhibitions. In the 19th century, art movements (loose associations of artists working in a similar style), such as the Impressionists emerged, as did the idea of the independent artist who rebelled against the official art establishment.
Image: Boy bitten by a Lizard by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: National Gallery Collection
To find out more about the National Gallery Collection visit our website https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/collection-overview
If you would like to read more about Art Road Trip and the NG200 Bicentenary celebrations https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/across-the-uk/art-road-trip