National Gallery

Eight centuries of European painting on Trafalgar Square, from Van Eyck to Van Gogh. Free entry, and in front of every painting the story of who painted it and who paid for it.

What we'll see

• Holbein's Ambassadors and the skull you only see from the side
• Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne, the most expensive blue of the Renaissance
• Rubens's Judgement of Paris
• Velázquez's Rokeby Venus, his only surviving nude
• Van Gogh's Sunflowers and Turner's Fighting Temeraire