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National Gallery and Getty fight over Raphael

The California museum has bought the Duke of Northumberland’s “Madonna of the pinks” for $50 million

Interviewarchive

Art is much more important than art history

As Neil MacGregor joins the British Museum as director next month, we publish a valedictory interview with him about the experience he gained leading the National Gallery

From the archive | Young woman at a virginal: A Vermeer? 'Oh yes it is! Oh no it’s not!'

After its showing in New York, Baron Rolin’s “Young woman at a virginal” has been accepted as plausible enough to be included in the London stage of the exhibition, but some scholars have yet to be convinced

Booksnews

From the archive | Caspar David Friedrich, the universal Romantic artist

The publication of a new monograph on Caspar David Friedrich neatly coincides with the opening of the National Gallery’s exhibition of 19th-century German paintings on loan from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Archivesarchive

V&A off limits to women in 1913?

Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement

Looted artarchive

The National Gallery investigates wartime provenance of 120 paintings

The London gallery aims to ensure that they are not war loot and appeals for assistance in checking their recent histories

From the archive | Waddesdon, Museum of the Year and the exemplar of a Rothschild house

Jacob Rothschild, the banker and former head of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, always took a deeply personal interest in the last of the great Rothschild houses

From the archive | When Jacob Rothschild spoke out about the challenges of running the Heritage Lottery Fund

Rothschild retired as the first chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund at the end of March 1998. In a rare interview, he described its relationship with government

Tatearchive

Swap: National Gallery and Tate

Rationalising London’s paintings collections

Bacon at last meets the pope as Velázquez comes to town

The National Gallery will display Portrait of Pope Innocent X with Bacon's reinterpretations

What's happening in the world of information technology in the museum community

A three-day conference and exhibition in London with new projects on show

From the archive | Frank Auerbach, a modern master inspired by the Old Masters, on show at London's National Gallery

Exhibition includes oil or acrylic paintings based on compositions owned by the gallery by Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt

March 1994archive

Master faker Alfred André's cache of evidence revealed

“Renaissance” jewels in the National Gallery of Art are by the hitherto unknown faker

National Gallery: new loans, new acquisitions

The Buccleuch Leonardo, the Halifax Titian plus two fine Danish purchases

Collectorsarchive

Collector profile: Heinz Berggruen reflects on his collection as his masterpieces go on loan to the National Gallery

“Not all art dealers make good collectors, and it’s no use them trying to be something they are not”.