The Tate Gallery

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• Tate Gallery — Tate Gal|lery the Tate Gallery also the Tate the former name for the ↑Tate Britain. There are also two smaller Tate Galleries outside London, one in Liverpool, and one in St Ives in southwest England …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• (the) National Gallery — the National Gallery [the National Gallery] (in Britain) the buildings in ↑Trafalgar Square, London, which contain the largest collection of paintings belonging to the nation. The paintings represent every period and style in western art from the …   Useful english dictionary

• Tate Gallery — ➡ Tate Britain * * * Art museum in London housing the national collection of British painting and sculpture and of modern British and European art since с 1870. It is named after Sir Henry Tate (1819–1899), a sugar refiner and inventor of the… …   Universalium

• National Gallery and Tate Gallery Act 1954 — The National Gallery and Tate Gallery Act 1954 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (2 3 Eliz II c. 65). The Act came into force in 1955 and created a legal separation between the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery and established …   Wikipedia

• Tate Gallery, the —  London art museum, now consists of four separate branches: Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, and Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Ives in the provinces …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

• The Stuckists Punk Victorian — was the first national gallery exhibition of Stuckist art. [http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh/ART24134.html Stuckist s Punk Victorian gatecrashes Walker s Biennial] , 24hourmuseum, 17 September 2004. Retrieved 9 April 2008.] It was held at the… …   Wikipedia

• Tate's purchase of The Upper Room — The Upper Room is an installation of 13 paintings of rhesus macaque monkeys by English artist Chris Ofili in a specially designed room. It was bought by the Tate gallery in 2005 from the Victoria Miro Gallery and was the cause of a media furore,O …   Wikipedia

• The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) — The Kiss is a marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Like many of Rodin s best known individual sculptures, including The Thinker , the embracing couple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs… …   Wikipedia

• The Art Fund — Founded 1903 Location London, United Kingdom Key people David Verey CBE (Chairman) Area served …   Wikipedia

• Collection of the National Gallery, London — Rembrandt, Belshazzar s Feast (1635) …   Wikipedia

• The Execution of Lady Jane Grey — is an oil painting by Paul Delaroche completed in 1833. It is currently housed in the National Gallery in London. The painting portrays, erroneously in some regards, the moments preceding the death of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed in 1554.… …   Wikipedia