Sainsbury Wing Floor Plan
You can access the theatre using a lift from all levels in the sainsbury wing.
Sainsbury wing floor plan. There are large lifts with low level controls giving access to the paintings on level 2. Venturi scott brown s national gallery sainsbury wing extension 1991 was born into a precarious no man s land between the warring camps of neo modernists and traditionalists who had been. Master of storms and sunsets. It is the closest entrance to the parking bays.
His control of europe s largest banking enterprise and a vast patronage network enabled him to take control of the city. The theatre has capacity for an audience of around 300 people. His gracious female figures impressive altarpieces and mythological scenes were greatly admired. He worked for the pope in rome and his paintings were sought by patrons as far afield as.
The gallery is an exempt charity and a non departmental public body of the department for digital culture media and sport. The building has 3 levels above ground and two underground featuring conference rooms a theater with 300 seats restaurant expanded museum shop and. Its collection belongs to the government on behalf of the. Cosimo his son piero and grandson.
The theatre was built as part of the sainsbury wing which opened in 1991. For the next 60 years his family would remain florence s de facto rulers. Milan ferrara and mantua 1430 1530. The addition of the sainsbury wing one of the most important carried to the gallery endowed it with 16 new rooms approximately 15 000m2 on the main floor and one in the basement levels.
It is used to host a wide range of events including. In 1434 cosimo de medici returned to florence from exile. Room 55 venice and the veneto 1460 1510. The sainsbury wing entrance is on the north side of trafalgar square near whitcomb street.
For much of his lifetime the florentine sandro botticelli was one of the most celebrated artists in italy. Room 41 cézanne renoir and vuillard. It has level access from trafalgar square. The national gallery is an art museum in trafalgar square in the city of westminster in central london founded in 1824 it houses a collection of over 2 300 paintings dating from the mid 13th century to 1900.
There he had a successful career as a painter of religious works mainly large altarpieces.