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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
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
Travelling survey places Goya's images of women in their context
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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
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
London’s National Gallery withdraws from bidding on possible war loot
Metropolitan Monet subject to claim
In an attempt to find works of art that may have been stolen by the Nazis ten British museums have named 350 works of art whose history between 1933 and 1945 is uncertain
British provenance probes
V&A off limits to women in 1913?
Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement
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
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
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
A closer look at the National Gallery's conservation efforts
All together now for the relaunched Technical Bulletin
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”.
Impressionism investigated in National Gallery's final "Art in the Making" exhibition
Artists’ techniques revealed through science