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National Gallery
Trafalgar
Square
London
WC2N
5DN
+44 (0)20 7747 2885
The National Gallery was founded
in 1824 to house one of the greatest collections of European
painting in the world. It consists of four main wings:
Sainsbury
Wing: Paintings
from 1260 to 1510 - van Eyck, Piero della Francesa, Botticelli,
Leonardo da Vinci, Bellini and Raphael.
West Wing: Paintings from 1510
to 1600 - Cranach, Michelangelo, Holbein, Bronzino, Titian,
Vveronese and El Greco.
North Wing: Paintings from 1600
to 1700 - including Rubens, Van Dyck, Poyssin, Claude, Velaquez,
Rembrandt and Vermeer.
East Wing: Paintings from 1700
to 1900 - Gainsborough, Turner, Constable, Monet, Renoir,
Cezanne, Van Gogh and Seurat.
Cost: Free
entrance/exhibition charges
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008, 02/03/08 to 26/05/08. Pompeo Batoni, 01/03/08 to 18/05/08. Radical Light, 18/06/08 to 07/09/08.
Closed:
1 Jan, Good Friday, 24 - 26 Dec
Nearest
Tube: Charing Cross / Leicester Square
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