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3 National Gallery

The National Gallery has flourished since its inception in the early
19th century. In 1824 the House of Commons was persua ded to buy
38 major paintings, including works by Raphael and Rubens, and
these became the start of a national collection. Today the collection
comprises more than 2,300 paintings in the Western European painting
tradition. The main gallery building was designed in Greek Revival style Stairs and lift
by William Wilkins and built in 1833–8. To its left lies the Sainsbury Wing, to lower
financed by the grocery family and completed in 1991. galleries

Pigott Education 31
Centre entrance 7
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Stairs to lower 22
floor d l 25
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18 27 29
21 26 13
. The Burlington House 20 14 12
Cartoon (c.1500) 3
The genius of Leonardo da 19 15 11
Vinci glows through this Link to main 17
chalk drawing of the Virgin building 10 5
and Child with St Anne and 16
St John the Baptist.
Stairs to lower floors
- d i l n = 9 4
6
8 7
Doge Leonardo
Loredan (1501–2)
Giovanni Bellini portrays 51
this Venetian head of 52
state as a serene 60 53
father figure. 61
59 54
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. The Baptism of Christ
Piero della Francesca painted
this tranquil masterpiece of Entrance to
early Renaissance perspective Sainsbury
(1450s) for a church in Wing 7
his native Umbria.

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