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Pair of Marriage Chests: The Nerli Chest

Biagio di Antonio (1446-1516), Jacopo del Sellaio (1441-1493) and Zanobi di Domenico (active 1464-1474), 1472

Weddings have always been occasions for flamboyant spending. In elite Florentine society during the Renaissance, wealthy husbands-to-be commissioned pairs of sumptuously decorated marriage chests. The Italian name for these chests...

Gothic Arch

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

In the sixteen etchings that form his series Inventions of Imaginary Prisons, of which this is one, Piranesi created complex fantastical architectural interiors. While there is an illusion of depth...

Young Woman Powdering Herself

Georges Seurat

In this particular painting, Young Woman Powdering Herself, the modulation of light and shadow on the wall is achieved with the use of small dots of pure colour juxtaposed in...

A Conversation

Vanessa Bell

Weddings have always been occasions for flamboyant spending. In elite Florentine society during the Renaissance, wealthy husbands-to-be commissioned pairs of sumptuously decorated marriage chests. The Italian name for these chests...

Adam and Eve

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Weddings have always been occasions for flamboyant spending. In elite Florentine society during the Renaissance, wealthy husbands-to-be commissioned pairs of sumptuously decorated marriage chests. The Italian name for these chests...

La Loge (The Theatre Box)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir showed La Loge (The Theatre Box) at the first Impressionist group exhibition in Paris in 1874. The painting was designed make an impact there. Its modern subject of...

Dancer Looking at the Sole of her Right Foot

Edgar Degas

Weddings have always been occasions for flamboyant spending. In elite Florentine society during the Renaissance, wealthy husbands-to-be commissioned pairs of sumptuously decorated marriage chests. The Italian name for these chests...

Paintings

...and Post-Impressionist paintings, including iconic works by Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. The collection includes one of the richest holdings in Britain of early Italian...

Gallery Virtual Tours

Our virtual tour uses a photographic technique to show The Courtauld Gallery and our collection in exceptional close-up quality. You can roam each room of the Gallery, and zoom in...

5 things to know about Wayne Thiebaud

6 Oct 2025

...Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. However, Thiebaud disliked being thought of as a Pop artist and considered himself a painter in the tradition of Jean-Siméon Chardin and Paul Cézanne. Thiebaud’s lushly...

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