Companion Guide English Edition

The Companion Guide has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide since it was first published in 1994.

For this new edition of the National Gallery's best-selling publication the text has been completely revised and updated to take account of the latest scholarship from the Gallery.

    The Companion Guide is the ideal introduction to the National Gallery's collection - one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world.

Through a selection of masterpieces by Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, Ingres, Degas and many others, Erika Langmuir enables the visitor and reader to trace the history of European painting from the thirteenth to the early twentieth century.

REVIEWS

    …the finest book of its kind, however different in scope and intent, since Gombrich's ‘The Story of Art'. – The Guardian

    …one of the best guides to a collection I have seen…deserves a place in all good art sections – The Bookseller