Congratulations on 200 years, National Gallery is a great place to work for.

What a cool job to be the director of a national gallery.

A marvellous presentation of an exquisite work. Thank you very much.

Thank you for proving these incredible short videos. I live in the U.S. and won't have an opportunity to visit, but now I can see and learn about your wonderful collections. Happy anniversary!

@nationalgallery

15 күн бұрын

Really glad to share the opportunity for you to appreciate our collection from afar! Thank you for watching our videos.

Never disappointed. Great mini seminar.

Such an amazingly beautiful painting, and so well preserved. Thank you, it is wonderful to hear you speaking about history.

Thank you so much for the educational effort and the wonderful explanation.

@nationalgallery

15 күн бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Beautiful - thank you.

A beautiful picture

Какая честь, быть директором такого музея! Спасибо, что разрешили привезти эту картину на выставку в Эрмитаж в 2019 году. Впечатление ошеломительное, ходила на выставку 2 раза. Экран не передает необыкновенный белый цвет в картинах. Всем мира и добра!

Thank you so much for this very interesting explanation about Piero della Francesca's painting. Congratulations on your 200 anniversary! 👏 I'm not sure I understood correctly.. this painting was never restored in its 600 years?? 😮

Thank you , never tire of looking .

I would love to live in a museum 🫣

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15 күн бұрын

There actually used to be a family who lived in our gallery!! Subscribe for the video about them, coming soon :)

Congrats on 200 years! It's been many years since I donated, and I'm glad to see you have managed without me. :) I need to add that I know there are several videos that the NG has put up about this particular painting, discussing it in detail (I think after some restoration? I can't be bothered to look, and I'm old, so you can't make me), so I know I've had the opportunity to study this painting at some length - though this is the thing about "studying" isn't it? One really needs to study and study more and more; I think it should be hanging in my living room, that would help - yet, this is the first time that I've recognized, i.e., consciously become cognizant of the fact, that the guy in the background who is preparing for his baptism is wearing BVDs! I'm amazed. You know, all the paintings you see from that time they all wear those tourniquets. I mean, not just Jesus, but, for instance, the two thieves or whatever they were who were crucified along with Jesus, they wore that lap-dance type underwear, too, but here this guy is wearing briefs much like those cheap ones I get at Target. I think that's a miracle.

Congratulations on 200 years! What a beautiful painting and wonderful analysis. I’d love to know which paintings were part of the original collection when the gallery opened. Thank you for the video

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15 күн бұрын

Thank you!! We have lots of content about our history coming out this year. Subscribe if you haven't already to make sure you don't miss any of these fab stories. You can also read about the beginnings of our collection here: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/history/collectors-and-benefactors/john-julius-angerstein

@genevievekilburn-smith890

15 күн бұрын

@@nationalgallery That's wonderful, thank you!

This is Awesome! I'm so glad this was recommended to me. 200 years.. wow.

I congratulate the Gallery on such an important anniversary. Having just spent a few hours in the Renaissance exhibit, in the basement, on my recent visit to UK, I want to confirm how awe inspiring it all is to a Canadian from our backwoods. Thank you.

@nationalgallery

7 күн бұрын

So glad you enjoyed your trip to see us! Thank you for visiting :)

Beautiful painting and excellent presentation. Though it doesn't answer the question posed in the headline: who did pioneer perspective in Renaissance art?

@badeaioana3183

16 күн бұрын

I guess the answer is in the title: Piero did.

@nationalgallery

15 күн бұрын

Well! Architect Filippo Brunelleschi devised the concept of linear perspective. But Piero, featured in this video, pioneered the use of it during the Renaissance. He was also a mathematical theorist. This interest is reflected in the clearly defined volume of the figures and accurate perspective in his works.

Felicidades por los doscientos años de la Galería Nacional. Un gran placer poder verle señor Gabriele Finaldi. Realizó una importante labor como Director Adjunto de Conservación e Investigación del Museo del Prado y la National Gallery también se beneficiará de su trabajo como Director de la misma.

Happy 200 anniversary.. I can't remember how long I have been a member, I remember every video I have watched with your lecturers. Watched a half dozen today to catch up! Thank you, from San Francisco, CA. I am a language educator, studying Art History for decades ( and in many museums).

@nationalgallery

4 күн бұрын

Wow, thanks for your lovely comment and for watching so many videos!

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4 күн бұрын

Thank you for being a Member, Lynn. We're so glad you're enjoying our videos! More to come!

Thank you for this video ❤

Such a masterful presentation of a great artwork!! 👏👏🙏🙏No better way to celebrate the bicentennary month of The National Gallery than to make this Renaissance masterpiece the artwork of the month on such a momentous occasion !!😊😊❤❤

@nationalgallery

15 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching and celebrating our birthday month with us!

Great video, thank you!

Thank you for such a great talk on the Baptism of Christ by Pietro Della Francesca. It's good to be helped to understand such lovely works of art. One question: are the Three Kings being depicted in the lower right hand corner of the picture?

This is one of my favourite paintings in the gallery (along with The Nativity). Very beautiful and very interesting. Thank you :)

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7 күн бұрын

Aw so lovely to hear this - thanks for watching!

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I went to one of the Camagalese monasteries in Tuscany with my Italian boyfriend when I was a visiting graduate student in Italian studies

We are so lucky that at some point some fortunate and sensitive people of the past got the idea to save the history of art for posterity. It gives us this connection through time to the humanity of man from hundreds of years ago. This is regardless of technique or the subject matter. It´s just so important to be able to feel the past sensation of the human spirit through something like painting, it just melts your ego and lets you appreciate the short breath that is even living. We are here but for a moment and then we are gone, whether we are rich or poor, sensitive or brutes, what remains is what people hang on to, and people hung on to Art, and I believe that that connection we made with our past selves as we handed down works of art allowed for an expansion of our consciousness that allowed for revolution and growth as a species. It´s too fascinating to leave it to robots, really. :)

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15 күн бұрын

A wonderful sentiment. Thank you for watching!

Such a cool job

Congratulations.

Has the National Gallery team ever done any conservation on this painting and if so, what techniques did they use to preserve an almost 600 year old painting? I can't imagine that the team hasn't examined the work, the frame, any framing done on the back for support, etc. to make sure it is structually sound & so on.

I wonder why he put that big white tree so prominent in the front and center.

That was wonderful! The National Gallery is my favorite museum and congrats on 200 years!🎉. I just have one observation about the painting. I found it unusual for the man who is in the process of taking off his garment to be wearing tight underwear. I realize the painting is not meant to be true to life but I just never would have thought that a seemingly tight fitting underwear would even be possible in the 1400’s. Could it be that the artist decided to paint them on for modesty’s sake? I guess I assumed most men back then just didn’t wear undergarments. Interesting! 😊

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