1. London. National Gallery
МБОУ СОШ №3 г.Моздок РСО- Алания
учитель английского языка Чинаева Раиса Сергеевна
2017

2. The National Gallery
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London.  Unlike comparable museums in continental Europe, the National Gallery was not formed by nationalising an existing royal or princely art collection. It came into being when the British government bought 38 paintings from the heirs of John Julius Angerstein , in 1824.

3. The National Gallery
The National Gallery is one of London's most important museums. It has an impressive collection of paintings covering the period between 1260 and 1900, with works from virtually all renowned artists of the era. Over the years the collection expanded to one of the most prestigious in Europe. Over 2300 paintings are now on display in the monumental building at Trafalgar Square.

4. History
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, king George IV realized that many European cities had opened impressive art museums to the public, such as the Louvre in Paris, the Vatican Museums in Rome and the Uffizi in Florence. 

5. The neoclassical building
The neoclassical building that now houses the museum was completed in 1838 after a much-criticized design by English architect William Wilkins. It was built at the then still to be developed Trafalgar Square, which had just been cleared. 

6. The Collection
The National Gallery's collection includes European paintings from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The works are arranged in a more or less chronological order. 

7. The museum's main entrance
The museum's main entrance is at the Sainsbury wing, to the left of the main building, where you'll find the oldest paintings such as works by Giotto and Jan van Eyck. Late Renaissance works from Titian, Michelangelo and others can also be found in the west wing. Seventeenth-century paintings from Italy, Flanders, Spain and the Netherlands are displayed in the north wing and features works from masters such as Rubens, Rembrandt and Caravaggio.

8. The Gallery aims to study and care for the collection
Paintings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are on display in the east wing. Here you'll find impressionist and post-impressionist works from artists like van Gogh, Seurat and Renoir.

9. The National Gallery houses one of the greatest collections of paintings in the world
Late Renaissance works from Titian, Michelangelo and others can also be found in the west wing.

10. Great ways to discover paintings
Seventeenth-century paintings from Italy, Flanders, Spain and the Netherlands are displayed in the north wing and features works from masters such as Rubens, Van Dyck , Rembrandt and Caravaggio.

11. J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire

12. Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors

13. Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers

14. Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait

15. George Bellows: Men of the Docks (1912)

16. Источники