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National Gallery, unlike other great museums of Europe, is a relatively recent history. This young age can be seen in the fact that, unlike other museums, the National Gallery collection does not inherit any royal or even of any aristrocrat, was introduced by a parliamentary law in 1824.
The idea of a national collection had been submitted for the first time in 1777, but the proposal had no success until in 1823, with the death of John Julius Angerstein (business man of Russian origin), when he appeared to fear that it could impressive collection fall into the hands of foreign collectors. And as a happy coincidence, Austria just a sum of money paid in England in the damages of war and thus the British government that incessantly complain of a chronic lack of money was able to buy - on behalf of the nation - 38 Agerstein paintings from his collection.
National Gallery was founded in 1824 when the Commons voted to purchase the collection of John Angerstein banker's paintings. The 38 paintings were originally displayed at Angerstein's house Pall Mall.
Nowadays, the National Gallery has one of the most interesting collections of European paintings in the world collection which is exhibited in a building built for her in central London. As the National Gallery building was expanded and developed over the years, so has intramplat and collection of paintings that now numbers over 2,300 works of art.
To meet the objective of the National Gallery, which is to encourage education, studying works owned institution, has always been encouraged and still held a series of programs designed to increase interest in painting and art in general among pupils and students.
Stubbornness to offer free admission, hosting one of the great works and visiting as many hours, ensuring that everyone can benefit from the works of art from the collection. The millions of visitors who visit the institution's National Gallery shows the goal is reached.
Page of the gallery building was built when the Parliament agreed to fund construction of Trafalgar Square in 1831. This location was chosen because it was considered that it offers very easy access to all social classes in London. Over the years, but the National Gallery collection to be expanded through acquisitions or through donations, some of them extremely important as a number of valuable works.
In 1890 the British papers exposure other than in the National Gallery building in Trafalgar Square has become a permanent policy, Tate was subsequently founded in 1954 as an institution separate from the National Gallery.
Despite this separation, the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square has continued to expand over the years and another five galleries were added in 1907. North wing was inaugurated in 1975 as being added another 12 rooms, all designed to take part as much natural light. In 1991 the Sainsbury wing was added, and here all works are now housed in the Renaissance. This wing was funded by Lord Sainsbury and his brothers.
The National Gallery is undoubtedly an important tourist attraction in London and is an opportunity to spend several hours in an extremely pleasant. National Gallery offers a wide range of paintings by some of the largest European artistic. Among the most popular are: "Venus and Mars" by Botticelli, "Sunflowers" by Van Gogh, "Madonna of the rock grotto" Da Vinci's "Samson and Delilah" by Rubens and others.
Besides the permanent collection there is a very dynamic and varied program of temporary exhibitions to be seen at the National Gallery, and all sorts of initiatives designed to bring art closer to people.
National Gallery Opening hours:
Open daily from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Wednesday from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm.
Closed on 1 January and 24-26 December.
The National Gallery admission is free.
National Gallery Trafalgar Square is located.
Buses: 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 29, 53, 77A, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176, 453.
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