National Gallery London (Great museums of the world)

England’s national gallery is renowned for what
is probably the most balanced collection of paintings in the world. With the Keeper of the national gallery as a guide through these pages, the reader will discover the superlative treasures of every period glories of the Italian renaissance, great achievements of seventeenth century French painting, Sir Robert Peel’s collection of Dutch and Flemish works, the perfections of english art at its highest.
Here, as in the Gallery itself, the reader can admire the astonishing masterpieces that formed the nucleus of its original collection: the charm-ing, gemlike Madonna of the Basket by correggio;
Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne, one of his greatest works; Poussin’s bacchanalian dance, with its warmly sensuous colors and sinuous elegance;
‘ the panoramic Castle of Steen by Rubens; and Canaletto’s The Stonemason’s Yard, a poetic, per. sonal view of venice.