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Lives of artists

In depth guides exploring the lives of some of the greatest artists at the National Gallery.

Mysterious Virgin

Uncover the secrets that lie behind Leonardo's Renaissance masterpiece.

Document, suitable for key stage 3, key stage 4 and key stage 5

The Restoration of the Leonardo Cartoon

Read an article from the National Gallery Technical Bulletin, by Eric Harding, Allan Braham, Martin Wyld and Aviva Burnstock

Two hundred years of women benefactors at the National Gallery: an exercise in mapping uncharted territory

The article sheds fresh light on women who have been important benefactors to the National Gallery from its foundation in 1824 to 2024.

Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece

9 November 2019 – 26 January 2020

The Gallery becomes a painting studio, an imagined chapel and a room-sized experiment in this immersive exhibition that leads you through the mind of Leonardo da Vinci to explore his masterpiece, ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’.

Past exhibition

In the last instalment of 2011: Luke Syson, curator of the current 'Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan' exhibition, explores the man behind the myth. Plus, Leonardo expert Martin Kemp examines the anatomy of Leonardo's drawings, and artist Jenny Saville reveals how Leonardo has inspired her own artwork.

The Virgin and Child

Italian, Milanese

perhaps about 1500-25

Marco d'Oggiono

documented from 1487; died 1524

Giampietrino, Boltraffio, and the Influence of Leonardo

Read an article from the National Gallery Technical Bulletin, by Larry Keith and Ashok Roy

Technical Bulletin Volume 32

In this volume: Leonardo in Verrocchio's workshop – 'The Virgin of the Rocks' – painting practice in Milan in the 1490s – an altarpiece once in San Francesco Grande, Milan

Technical bulletin, suitable for key stage 4 and key stage 5