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National Gallery: 100 Greatest Paintings

The National Gallery houses one of the richest collections of Western European paintings in the world. This beautiful book contains one hundred of the greatest works from the collection, each by a different artist. It’s arranged in chronological order, like The National Gallery itself, covering 700 years of art history from the 13th to the 20th centuries.

 Dr Louise Govier contributes a lively and informative commentary to each of the 100 paintings. Formerly a university lecturer and Head of Adult Learning at the National Gallery, Dr Govier is an MLA Museums Clore Leadership Fellow who now works with the National Trust at Mottisfont Abbey. Her insight reveals the significance of each masterpiece and the reason for its inclusion in this attractive full-colour book.

The painters represented here include some of the most famous names in European art – Duccio, Giotto, Dürer, Holbein, van Eyck, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, El Greco, Velázquez, Zurbarán, Goya, Caravaggio, Claude, Poussin, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Constable, Turner, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Rousseau and Van Gogh – along with some of the most iconic paintings in the world, such as The Wilton Diptych, The Arnolfini Portrait, The Ambassadors and Sunflowers.