Behind the Scenes at a Transfer of Early Renaissance Works at the National Gallery
Curator Laura Llewellyn works with art handlers to arrange and hang a selection of 15th-century Italian paintings in Room 14. The Sainsbury Wing galleries have closed for the time being, to keep the collections safe while building work is carried to mark our bicentenary and transform our visitor welcome. To ensure treasured paintings from the […]
Treat Every Child as an Individual
A mother asks what she should say to her 9-year-old daughter who complained, after being chided for bad behavior, that her brother does not suff er the same reproach. This is a worry for many parents; should they treat all their children the same? No! Of course not. Each child is unique with a differing […]
Piero del Pollaiolo
Famous for their new treatment of heroic, antique subjects and the depiction of the male nude in action, Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo ran one of the most successful and advanced workshops in fifteenth-century Florence. Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo had a workshop in Florence patronized by Medici. In the Florentine workshop of the Pollauiolo brothers […]