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The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England.Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 [2].
Titian, Diana and Actaeon (1556), jointly with the National Gallery of Scotland. Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors (1533). Leonardo da Vinci – The Virgin of the Rocks (1495–1508). Michelangelo, The Entombment (1500–1501). Raphael, The Madonna of the Pinks (La Madonna dei Garofani) (1506–07). American School George Bellows – 1 ...
The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress.
Director of the National Gallery of Ireland Caroline Campbell (born Belfast ) is an international art museum curator. Since November 2022, she is director of the National Gallery of Ireland , being the first woman taking this position in the Gallery’s 158 year history.
The façade of the National Gallery copies the Natural History building of the National Museum of Ireland which was already planned for the facing flank of Leinster House. The building itself was designed by Francis Fowke , based on early plans by Charles Lanyon , and was completed and opened in 1864.
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first national public gallery in the world that was dedicated to portraits.
The National Gallery (German: Nationalgalerie) in Berlin, Germany, is a museum for art of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. It is part of the Berlin State Museums . From the Alte Nationalgalerie , which was built for it and opened in 1876, its exhibition space has expanded to include five other locations.
Robert Neil MacGregor (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2015, [1] and founding director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin until 2018.