Potete cercarmi un riassunto sulla National Gallery of London in Inglese?

Question

Mi servirebbero: la storia della National Gallery, i nomi e i cognomi degli autori esposti, I dati sui quadri più importanti della galleria (titolo, autore, data di creazione ecc.....) e la collocazione geografica.

Grazie

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery%2C_London

qui troverai molte informazioni...

Answer 2

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about/default.htm
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/question.asp

The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting: over 2,300 pictures dating from 1250 onwards. The collection includes all the major European schools of painting and masterpieces by many great artists. Most of the paintings in the permanent collection are on Level 2. Remaining paintings are shown in Rooms A to G on Level 0 (Room A is always open on Wednesday afternoons).

Rooms are subject to unavoidable short-term closure, without notice. Visitors wishing to see particular paintings are advised to telephone National Gallery Information on 020 7747 2885 beforehand.
Manet to Picasso

Rediscover the National Gallery's outstanding collection of 19th-century paintings in this special Sainsbury Wing installation.
Paintings from 1250 to 1500 including:

* Giovanni Bellini: 'The Doge Leonardo Loredan'
* Botticelli: 'Venus and Mars'
* Piero della Francesca: 'The Baptism of Christ'
* Uccello: 'The Battle of San Romano'
* Unknown English or French artist: 'The Wilton Diptych'
* Van Eyck: 'The Arnolfini Portrait'

Paintings from 1500 to 1600 including:

* Gossaert: 'The Adoration of the Kings'
* Holbein: 'The Ambassadors'
* Leonardo da Vinci: 'The Virgin of the Rocks'
* Michelangelo: 'The Entombment'
* Raphael: 'The Madonna of the Pinks'
* Titian: 'Bacchus and Ariadne'

Paintings from 1600 to 1700 including:

* Caravaggio: 'The Supper at Emmaus'
* Claude: 'Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula'
* Rembrandt: 'Self Portrait at the Age of 34'
* Rubens: 'Samson and Delilah'
* Van Dyck: 'Equestrian Portrait of Charles I'
* Velázquez: 'The Rokeby Venus'
* Vermeer: 'A Young Woman standing at a Virginal'

Paintings from 1700 onwards including:

* Canaletto: 'The Stonemason's Yard'
* Cézanne: 'Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)'
* Constable: 'The Hay Wain'
* Drouais: 'Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame'
* Gainsborough: 'Mr and Mrs Andrews'
* Ingres: 'Madame Moitessier'
* Stubbs: 'Whistlejacket'
* Turner: 'The Fighting Temeraire'
When the National Gallery was established in 1824, it had no purpose-built home. Initially, pictures were displayed in the private house of the late John Julius Angerstein, in Pall Mall. The size of the building was compared unfavourably with other national art galleries, and ridiculed in the press. These illustrations compare the size of the Louvre in Paris, with the accommodation for Britain's national collection.
When Carlton House was demolished in 1826, its impressive columns were saved. Wilkins selected eight of the columns for use in his new National Gallery building. In the event, he then decided they were too small for the central portico. However, it is conceivable that they were eventually used in the east and west porticos.
Between 1928 and 1933, the National Gallery commissioned Boris Anrep to lay three mosaic pavements in the Vestibule of the Main Hall to illustrate 'The Labours of Life' and 'The Pleasures of Life'. In 1952, Anrep laid a third pavement in the Vestibule - depicting 'Modern Virtues'.


Anrep was one of the foremost mosaicists in Britain, and his work can also be seen at Tate Britain and in Westminster Cathedral.
The Royal Academy of Arts was also housed in the new National Gallery building at Trafalgar Square. In 1868, the Royal Academy moved into its own new building in Piccadilly, leaving extra space for the National Gallery
There was a lot of public criticism of the National Gallery's building and in 1868 the architect E.M. Barry was asked to submit designs for rebuilding the entire Gallery at Trafalgar Square. After much discussion, it was decided that the existing building should remain, and a new wing should be added. This was completed in 1876, and added seven new exhibition rooms at the east end, including the impressive dome.
The Trustees had to battle for a long time to secure expansion space for the National Gallery. The site in central London was very constrained. Eventually, in 1907, barracks at the rear of the Gallery were cleared and work began to construct five new galleries.
The Northern Extension, which opened in 1975, provided considerable extra exhibition space: nine large rooms, and three smaller 'cabinet' rooms. These new galleries made use of natural lighting as far as possible.
In 1985 Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover and his brothers The Hon. Simon Sainsbury and Sir Timothy Sainsbury generously agreed to finance the construction of a new wing for the Gallery. A site next to the Gallery had been vacant since the Second World War, when a furniture shop was destroyed by bombing. The new Sainsbury Wing was opened in 1991, to display the entire early Renaissance collection.

Answer 3

Vedi in questi siti

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/default.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery,_London

Answer 4

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