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David Scrase

Fine art: Portraits you can never tire of viewing

August 31, 2017

Ranging in date from the mid-15th century until around 1640, the drawings on display at the National Portrait Gallery’s Close Encounter exhibition all come from British collections and give a fine indication of the riches still here. Some are not strictly speaking portraits – in the section “Drawing from Life” a likeness has been caught

A rare glimpse of Raphael’s path to perfection

July 13, 2017

Raphael: The Drawings, a wonderful exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (until September 3), is the first opportunity in Britain to see the primacy of Raphael as a draughtsman since the memorable exhibition held in 1983 at the British Museum. That was organised by John A Gere and Nicholas Turner, and showed drawings from British

Fine art: The Venetian upstart who took on Raphael

April 13, 2017

The Raising of Lazarus, painted by Sebastiano Luciani (1485-1547) – known after 1531 as Sebastiano del Piombo, when Pope Clement VII gave him the ecclesiastical office of Piombatore, which authorised him to wield the lead papal seal, or piombo – was the first work of art to enter the National Gallery’s collection. The decision to

Fine Art: An overwhelming sense of pathos and guilt

October 27, 2016

Beyond Caravaggio National Gallery, London, until January 15 Jointly organised by the National Galleries of London, Dublin and Edinburgh, this exhibition takes the opportunity to bring to prominence the few paintings by Caravaggio in British Isles collections, and to present them in proximity with works by artists who, for the most part, were influenced by

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