The leading galleries in the world France

The leading galleries in the world

France (Paris) Louvre The Louvre in France is one of the most famous and most visited hudozhnihmuzeyiv in the world. Louvre collection contains almost 35, 000 exhibits yakivystavlyayutsya 60 , 000 square meters ( 650 000 square meters. Feet). The Louvre Palace was built during the reign of the dynasty Kapetinov under chaspravlinnya Philip II and gradually increased over time stavshybudovoyu , which is known today. In the Louvre are some of the most vidomyhtvoriv art in the world , such as the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna and baby with St. Anne , and Madonna in the grotto, Horace Oath by Jacques -Louis David , Liberty leading the people of Delacroix, and Venus de Milo Alexandros Antiochus.

Spain (Madrid) Prado Museum of Fine Arts in Madrid Prado takes pride of place among the most famous museums in the world , along with the Louvre in Paris and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Among the paintings by artists belonging to the Italian school , mostly purchased for the Prado Museum King Philip II, Charles V, and especially Philip IV, in the collection of the Prado are paintings of masters such as Andrea Mantegna , Raphael, Veronese, Sandro Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto , Tintoretto and Titian. Flemish School presented paintings by Rogier van der Weyden , Hans Memling , Ieronimusa Bosch, Pieter Bruegel , Rubens. The most widely museum features paintings of Spanish artists such as Velázquez , El Greco, Murillo , Zurbaran , Goya

Poland (Warsaw) National Museum Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw (1862) is the largest art collection in Poland. To 1916 was known as the Museum of Fine Arts. Includes ancient Egyptian monuments, ancient and Byzantine art, works of European painting and sculpture XV-XX centuries. , A rich collection of Polish art of the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. , Collections of decorative art, drawings, coins and medals. Among the works of foreign authors can be identified especially beautiful "Madonna and Child" by Botticelli.

Germany (Dresden) Dresden Art Gallery and Gallery of Old Masters the world-famous collection of paintings from the Renaissance to the Baroque and Classicism. The collection was created in the first half of the 18 th century. Collected paintings rapidly increased in 1746 for the Gallery was purchased at the same time 100 masterpieces of art. Gallery became known in Europe as early as 1747. Pearl of the Dresden collection of works of art is "Sikstinska Madonna" by Raphael Sanzio.

Russia (St. Petersburg) State Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum - one of the world's greatest art and cultural history museums. It appeared in 1764 as the private collection of Catherine II, opened to the public in 1852. Contains a collection of monuments of ancient cultures of the East, Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the art of Western and Eastern Europe, archaeological and artistic monuments Asian and Slavic cultures.

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