National Gallery

National Gallery fra Trafalgar Square

National Gallery er et berømt kunstmuseum i London. Det ligger ved Trafalgar Square. Museet huser over 2.300 kendte malerier fra midten af det 14. århundrede til 1900. Museet blev grundlagt i 1824. Kunstsamlingen tilhører offentligheden og adgang til hovedsamlingerne er gratis.

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Koordinater: 51°30′31″N 0°07′42″V / 51.508704°N 0.128435°V / 51.508704; -0.128435

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Umbrellas (1883).

Note: Artist Suzanne Valadon seen at left carrying basket.
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Forfatter/Opretter: unknown, Licens: CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
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Dionysus is described as having 'perfumed hair in golden curls', with feminine attributes as depicted here including wider hips and larger breasts.
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Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance, has just left Ariadne on Naxos, when Bacchus arrives, jumping from his chariot drawn by two cheetahs, falling immediately in love with Ariadne. Bacchus raised her to heaven. The constellation Corona Borealis, Bacchus's crowning gift to her, is shown in the sky above her head.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels (The Manchester Madonna), Tempera on wood, 104,5 x 77 cm (Inv.: 809)
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Bathers at Asnières, Georges Seurat, 1884.
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Jean de Dinteville, French Ambassador to the court of Henry VIII of England, and Georges de Selve, Bishop of Lavaur. The painting is famous for containing, in the foreground, at the bottom, a spectacular anamorphic, which, from an oblique point of view, is revealed to be a human skull. An Armenian carpet, a vishapagorg rug from Central Anatolia, is on the table.
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El cuadro llamado The Thames at Westminster fue pintado por Monet durante su estancia en Londres en 1872
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According to Daniel 5:1-31, King Belshazzar of Babylon takes sacred golden and silver vessels from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem by his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar. Using these holy items, the King and his court praise 'the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone'. Immediately, the disembodied fingers of a human hand appear and write on the wall of the royal palace the words "MENE", "MENE", "TEKEL", "UPHARSIN"
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The Virgin with the Infant Saint John the Baptist adoring the Christ Child accompanied by an Angel. In this second version Mary and Jesus are depicted with a halo and John the Baptist with the cross