Hungarian National Gallery

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The Hungarian National Gallery is the national art museum located in Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. Its collections cover Hungarian art, whilst the main museum for international art is the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest).

The exhibitions of the museum are divided into the following sections:

• Medieval and renaissance stone store

• Gothic wooden statues

• Late gothic altars

• Renaissance and baroque arts

• 19th and 20th century painting, statue-making and numismatics

• Contemporary art - displaying the artistic works of Mihály Munkácsy and László Paál.

Contents 1 Medieval and renaissance stone art 2 Gothic wooden statues 3 Late Gothic oltars 4 Renaissance and Baroque Art 5 19th and 20th century painting, statue-making and numismatics 6 Contemporary art 7 External link

[edit] Medieval and renaissance stone art

The Medieval and Renaissance stone exhibition dates from the 11th to the 16th century

[edit] Gothic wooden statues

The Gothic wood sculptures and pictures in the gallery date from the 14th to the 15th century

[edit] Late Gothic oltars

The late Gothic oltars date from the 15th century to the 16th century.

[edit] Renaissance and Baroque Art

The renaissance and baroque Hungarian art of the museum dates from 1550 to 1800.

[edit] 19th and 20th century painting, statue-making and numismatics

The museum displays a number of works from national Hungarian sculptors such as Károly Alexy, Maurice Ascalon, Miklós Borsos, Gyula Donáth, János Fadrusz, Béni Ferenczy, István Ferenczy and Miklós Izsó.

[edit] Contemporary art

The gallery displays the work of artists such as Mihály Munkácsy and László Paál.

v • d • e Museums with major collections of Western European & American Paintings Paintings (mid-13th century to 20C) State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia 16,783 paintings [1] Musée du Louvre, Paris, France 11,900 paintings [1] Royal Collection, London, UK 7,000 paintings [2] Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 6,000 paintings [3] National Museum of Serbia , Belgrade , Serbia 5,600 paintings and around 8,400 drawings and prints [4] Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 5,500 paintings [5] Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France 5,033 paintings [6] Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy 4,800 paintings [7] Tate Collection, London, UK 4,442 paintings [8] Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany 4,000 paintings [9] Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium 3,200 paintings [10] Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain 3,000 paintings [11] Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary 3,000 paintings [12] Das Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany 2,700 paintings [13] National Gallery, London, UK 2,300 paintings [14] Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 2,200 paintings [15] Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK 2,000 paintings [16] Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA 1,900 paintings [17] Accademia Carrara di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy 1,800 paintings [18] Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK 1697 paintings (inc. 200 paintings from Christ Church Picture Gallery) [19] [20] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA 1,600 paintings [21] Gräflich Lambergsche Gemählde-Gallerie, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria 1,600 paintings [22] Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, Austria 1,500 paintings [23] Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria 1,400 paintings [24] National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA 1,200 paintings [25] Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK 1,181 paintings [26] Fogg Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA 1,100 paintings [27] Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA 1,011 paintings [28] Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain 1,000 paintings [29] Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway 1,000 paintings [30] Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut, USA 900 paintings [31] Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA 900 paintings [32] Le Musée Condé, Chantilly, France 850 paintings [33] Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany 800 paintings [34] Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands 800 paintings [35] Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome, Italy 800 paintings [36] Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA 800 paintings [37] Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany 750 paintings [38] Wallace Collection, London, UK 650 paintings [39] Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK 644 paintings [40] Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 530 paintings [41] Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy 500 paintings [42] Vatican Museums, Vatican City 460 Paintings (ex. Raphael Stanze, Sistine Chapel) [43] J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA 450 paintings [44] Musée National Picass, Paris, France 250 paintings (small selection of work by other artists) [45] Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 200 paintings [46] Notable Exceptions (lack of information): Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris, France Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, Germany Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Palazzo Spada, Rome, Italy Gallerie dell'Accadenia, Venice, Italy Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy Museo Civico di Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino, Italy Galleria nazionale di Parma, Parma, Italy Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy Museo nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa, Italy São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil n.b. it should be noted that this list is controversial, in so far as it contains only quantitative analysis of museum holdings. These may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of collections in question.

[edit] External link

• Hungarian National Gallery

Coordinates: 47°29′46″N 19°02′23″E / 47.49611, 19.03972