National Gallery drops Renaissance painting, splitting it in two
2008-05-22 15:02:00 Oops! That wasn’t too clever was it. By Martin Bailey The Art Newspaper can reveal that a 500-year-old panel painting by Domenico Beccafumi of Marcia was broken in half, in one of the most serious handling accidents known to have occurred in a UK museum in living memory. This happened during deinstallation of the “Renaissance Siena” exhibition, which closed on 13 January. Gallery director Dr Nicholas Penny, who took over in February, admitted that the accident was “extremely serious”. Marcia was being removed from the wall in the Sainsbury Wing exhibition galleries when it slipped out of its temporary frame and dropped to the ground. The panel is composed of three vertical planks, each nearly one metre high, and the impact meant that the left plank broke completely away from the other two. Although conservation at the National Gallery is normally only done after approval of the trustees, remedial work was deemed urgent, in order to avoid further damage. Chairman Pete...
National Gallery Vision 2100
2008-04-07 10:44:00 For today’s audiences, 20th-century art is old and 19th-century art - ancient. Can galleries overcome this challenge? questioned Michael Archer in ‘How modern art became history’, an article published in The Guardian on March 28. He applauds the policy of Nicholas Penny, the newly appointed director of the National Gallery in London, UK, to move ...
By: eArtFair .com
Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Scotland
2007-08-15 16:31:00 To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Andy Warhol’s death, the National Gallery of Scotland is exhibition the largest collection of the artist’s work ever seen.
By: CoolBoom
Velazquez at the National Gallery
2007-07-15 21:33:00 Sunday Times art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, presents a vodcast on the Velazquez exhibition at the National Gallery in London
england's national gallery brings its art to the people
2007-06-15 15:11:00 As a promotion to drive increased visits, England's National Gallery created reproductions of its most famous works and hung them up around the streets of London. The result is striking.Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR.Photos by Fergus JacksonPosted by Ed Cotton
By: Influx Insights
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2007-06-01 00:00:00 The header image of this photoblog was shot in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. It has won me a prize on creativematch.com as flair photography contest winner of Januari. Click here to see more Melbourne pictures, or here to see more of the National Gallery pictures.
By: spectrograph
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