# Gabriele Finaldi

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Museums have traditionally played an important role in the forging of national identity. In this episode of What Are Museums For?, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennings are joined by Sussan Babaie and Gabriele Finaldi, to discuss the relationship …

Titian, Van Gogh and more go on show at Palace Museum

Some of the finest masterpieces by a number of the world's most celebrated artists will go on show at the Hong Kong Palace Museum from Wednesday. In the special exhibition co-organised with the National Gallery, London, the Palace Museum will put on display 52 works painted by 50 influential arti…

The National Gallery at 200

The National Gallery opened its doors on 10th May 1824. The public could view 38 paintings, free. Now there are more than 2,300, including many masterpieces of European art by geniuses such as Rembrandt, Turner and Van Gogh. It is still free. The gallery's director, Gabriele Finaldi, guides Samir…

Can Art Lead Us to God? | Gabriele Finaldi (Director of the National Gallery)

How does art raise the heart to God? In the latest episode of Into the Truth, we talk to the Director of the National Gallery, Gabriele Finaldi, about the relationship between faith and art, whether contemporary Catholic art has lost its meaning, and whether the artist's morality should impact our …

S1: E5 Seeing Salvation, 2000

In this episode, guest Dr Xavier Bray, director of the Wallace Collection, describes the surprise hit exhibition in London in 2000: Seeing Salvation, Image of Christ, at the National Gallery. He shares his memories of being an assistant (and very junior) curator of the show and explains why images …

Episode 3: The Power of Painting | Gabriele Finaldi, Jan Dalley & Shirazeh Houshiary

'The viewer makes the painting alive. Without the viewer, that thing doesn't exist.' – Shirazeh Houshiary What happens to our understanding of painting when we expand the canon across eras and cultures? In the third episode of the Frieze Masters Podcast, artist Shirazeh Houshiary, Director of the…

London: National Gallery refurb and rehang, Tate Modern is 25. Plus, Inge Mahn

This week: after a two-year closure, the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing reopens this week, revealing a major overhaul by the architect Annabelle Selldorf. The gallery has also rehung its entire collection and Ben Luke takes a tour of both the revamped building and the new displays with the Natio…

Kerry James Marshall, National Gallery expansion, Picasso’s Three Dancers

Kerry James Marshall: The Histories at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is the largest ever European retrospective of the work of the US artist and has been greeted with universal critical acclaim. Ben Luke takes a tour of the exhibition with Mark Godfrey, its curator, and visits a related exhib…

Episode 3: The Power of Painting | Gabriele Finaldi, Jan Dalley & Shirazeh Houshiary

'The viewer makes the painting alive. Without the viewer, that thing doesn't exist.' – Shirazeh Houshiary What happens to our understanding of painting when we expand the canon across eras and cultures? In the third episode of the Frieze Masters Podcast, artist Shirazeh Houshiary, Director of the…