"[A] lavishly lovely bicentary souvenir."-- "Financial Times"

"Rigorous and comprehensive in scope, spanning nearly 600 pages and 700 years of art history."-- "My Modern Met"

"This hardcover tome is a piece of art for the home."-- "Harper's Bazaar"

"This lavish outsize volume is an extravert and delectable monument to its history, valuable especially for the quality and quantity of reproduced paintings, but also for wise commentaries, notably from living artists."-- "Financial Times"

"A splendid tome. Not only is there a visual feast through centuries of painting in the Western European tradition, but photographic portraits of 25 leading cultural figures alongside their favorite masterworks offer fresh new insights into the classics and how they continue to shape creative sensibilities today."-- "Galerie"

"Never before has this museum been so close from afar."-- "Welt am Sonntag"

"A hefty tome."-- "The Art Newspaper"

"Invite the iconic museum into your own home with this new book."-- "Homes & Antiques"

"The volume allows for readers to sneak behind the scenes of their most beloved works."-- "10 Magazine"

"You can look at it again and again: The National Gallery. Paintings, People, Portraits brings together around 200 works from the collection to tell the story of 700 years of art history. Magnificent!"-- "Der Standard"

"I go to the National Gallery rather like going to a doctor for help."-- "Lucian Freud, 1988"