National Gallery HISTORY London National Gallery

National Gallery

HISTORY • London National Gallery - one of the largest galleries of the capital of Great Britain, it is the main art museum in London, whose collection consists of more than 2, 300 paintings of famous artists.

In 1991, the donations of the owner of the supermarket chain 'Sainsbury' famous collector Simon Sainsbury and his brothers, was constructed wing, known as "Sainsbury Wing" project of a prominent architect Robert Venturi. After completion of the Sainsbury Wing Galleries total area of 46 square meters of Z 96, which is equal to about six football fields. The British claim that its building would accommodate 2000 London double-decker buses.

SAINSBURY WING EXHIBITED EARLY WORKS (1260 - 1510) Piero della Francesca ("Baptism") Sandro Botticelli "The Birth of Venus"

IN THE NORTHERN WING OF THE PAINTINGS ARE ARRANGED PERIOD 1510 -1600. HERE YOU CAN FIND PAINTINGS BY SUCH MASTERS AS PARMIGIANINO, LEONARDO DA VINCI, TITIAN, HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER, HIERONYMUS BOSCH, PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER. Parmigianino “Madonna with the Long Neck” Titian

Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Madonna Litta

IN THE WEST WING - THE PAINTING OF THE XVII CENTURY: WORKS BY REMBRANDT, VERMEER, VAN DYCK, RUBENS, MURILLO, VELÁZQUEZ, TURNER. "Venus with a Mirror" Velasquez “Landscape with the castle walls “ Rubens

IN THE EAST WING - PAINTINGS 1700 -1920: CANALETTO, WATTEAU, REYNOLDS, CONSTABLE, GERICAULT, DELACROIX, INGRES, MANET, RENOIR, SEURAT AND ROUSSEAU Canaletto Gericault