Segna di Bonaventura’s ‘Crucifix’ | A History of the National Gallery in Six Paintings
Senior Research Curator Susanna Avery-Quash talks us through the history of taste and collecting at the Gallery, focusing on her personal hero, Sir Charles Eastlake, and some of our early Italian paintings.
Discover how the National Gallery was transformed from being a hotchpotch of certain acknowledged masterpieces hung in a random order, with no labelling, poor lighting, and no cataloguing into the gallery we are today.
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