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1. Answer the following questions:

1. Where is the National Gallery?

2. When was it founded?

3. When was the National Gallery housed first?

4. When did the National Gallery move to home in Trafalgar Square?

5. Who constructed the present building of British museum?

6. What amazing items are in the National Gallery?

7. What is the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery?

2. Decide and match what these numbers and dates refer to according to the text.

1824

a. the year when Rembrandt painted his self portrait

1669

b. the sum of money which Parliament wanted to pay John Julius Angerstein to buy some pictures from his collection

38

c. The number of paintings which the National gallery contains

1821

d. the year when John Constable’s picture called The Hay Wain was painted

60.000

e. the period which covers every European school of painting

1508

f. the time when the gallery moved to its present home in Trafalgar Square

2.300

g. the beginning of the National gallery

1838

h. the year when the new Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery was opened by Queen Elizabeth II

1260-1900

i. the time when the famous masterpiece Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci was painted

1991

j. the number of paintings which British government wanted to buy from the collection of financier John Julius Angerstein