National Gallery
The Adoration of the Shepherds is a great painting – but it belongs in a church, not a gallery
The painting, hanging in the National Gallery, has lost its true setting
Dr Finaldi is right: without knowledge of Christianity, we can’t appreciate religious art
Works like the Wilton Diptych would be incomprehensible to someone who knew nothing of the faith
‘The belief context has become much weaker’: an interview with Gabriele Finaldi
The National Gallery director on religious art, family singalongs, and the Marian painting that survived the Puritans
The nudity of Michelangelo’s Risen Christ makes a powerful theological point
The statue is coming to the National Gallery next year – it is a chance to correct a misperception about the Church
What Goya really thought of the Church
The Spanish artist, subject of a major exhibition at the National Gallery, both celebrated and satirised Catholicism. Was he the most hypocritical artist who ever lived?
Art Review: The man who dared to believe in Impressionism
The National Gallery’s new show presents the Impressionists as bold heirs of Delacroix and Courbet
An artistic awakening in the Muslim world would be of benefit to us all
The attack on Charlie Hebdo was iconoclastic in the traditional sense – an attack on makers of images
A documentary that doesn’t play to the gallery
Frederick Wiseman’s new film about the National Gallery is reassuringly serious
Savour the silence of the Big Smoke
Being lonely in London is a rare thrill. Even the most famous places you can sometimes have to yourself
Forget her bloody reputation, Mary I was loved in her lifetime
Mary was a popular queen from whom Elizabeth I learned much
