Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему The London National Gallery

United Kingdom. The Trafalgar Square is one of the busiest tourist places in London. The National Gallery is a grand building of pale grey limestone, with a central dome and a large Classical style porch (portico) like an Ancient Greek temple. To the left side, the gallery has a large new building called The Sainsbury Wing.

of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The Gallery is the fourth most visited art museum in the world, after Musee du Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum. The National Gallery has many paintings of very high quality and it has paintings by famous artists whose works are very rare. These rare paintings include works by Duccio, Masaccio, Uccello, Piero della Francesca, Leonardo, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Chardin, Klimt, Rousseau and Redon.

when he purchased the collection of 38 paintings of Angerstein, which was the nucleus of the future gallery. In 1824 the government decided to purchase the collection, the banker's Angerstein: five landscapes by Claude Lorrain, a painting by Sebastiano del Piombo's "Resurrection of Lazarus", painting "Venus and Adonis" by Titian, "the rape of the Sabine women" by Rubens, hoganesque series "Fashion marriage", a portrait of Admiral Heathfield painted by Reynolds and "Village festival" Wilkie.

John Julius Angerstein

hit by ten bombs, and resulted in significant damage, but no the picture is not affected, all exhibits were evacuated in advance. The Museum rebuilt, and since January of the 46th year he again receives guests.

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