National Gallery

The National Gallery, founded on 1824, lodges the greater western European painting collection of the country: more than two thousand works made between 1250 and 1900. The collection have examples of the main European pictorial schools and includes masterpieces of practically all the great masters. The collection is distributed by historical periods in the four wings of the main floor.
In the Sainsbury Wing are exposed paintings from 1250 to 1500, including works by Van Eyck, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Bellini and Raphael. In the West Wing are the painters from 1500 to 1600, including Tiziano, Tintoretto, Cranach, Miguel Angel, Holbein, Bronzino, Veronese and El Greco. The North Wing lodges paintings from 1600 to 1700, with works of Rubens, Van Dyck, Caravaggio, Poussin, Claude, Velazquez, Rembrandt and Vermeer. Finally, in the East Wing are exposed the paintings made between 1700 and 1900, including Canaletto, Gainsborough, Turner, Consistable, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Seurat.

In addition to the permanent collection, the National Gallery offers a dynamic program of temporary exhibitions. The information desks offers free pamphlets in which are detailed the programmed exhibitions and in course. The Micro Gallery is a computer system that contains the totality of the collection of the gallery, which allows the visitors to explore its favourite areas, from a particular work or artist to a period or subject.

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