Навчальний посібник для студентів ос «Бакалавр» галузі знань 03 «Гуманітарні науки»
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- National Gallery The National Gallery, London
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The British Museum Department of the Middle East has the largest collection of Mesopotamian art in the world, outside Iraq. It has some 300,000 objects, covering the Neolithic period until present. It has objects from all over the Middle East including Mesopotamia (Iraq), Anatolia (Turkey), Levant (Syria, Lebanon and Jordan) and some pieces from central Asia. The Assyrian and Sumerian collections are also some of the biggest in the world. Key objects in the collection include: The Cyrus Cylinder, a cylindrical scroll from 539 BC. Written on it is the story of Cyrus, king of Babylon. He gave rights back to the people of Assyria after the previous king enslaved them and burned their temples. Several ten feet tall statues of lions and bulls with human heads. The fifteen foot high bronze gates of the fortress of Galawat. National Gallery The National Gallery, London is an art gallery in London, England, which has one of the finest collections of European paintings in the world. What makes this gallery so important is that, although there are bigger galleries, The National Gallery has many paintings of very high quality and also because it has paintings by famous artists whose works are very rare. These rare paintings include works by Duccio, Masaccio, Uccello, , Leonardo, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Caravag gio, Vermeer, Chardin, Klimt,Rousseau and Redon. The National Gallery is on Trafalgar Square, which is one of the busiest tourist places in London. It is a grand building of pale grey limestone, with a central dome and a large Classical style porch ( portico ) like an Ancient Greek temple. To the left side, the gallery has a large new building called The Sainsbury Wing . жүктеу/скачать 4,66 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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