National Gallery of Art

By:Știrbu Ciprian
 Basic information
• The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden,
is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the 
National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue.
 Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately
established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of
the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a
substantial art collection and funds for construction. 
 The National Gallery of Art collection
• The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs,
sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of
Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only
painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest
mobile created by Alexander Calder.
• The Gallery's campus includes the original neoclassical West
Building designed by John Russell Pope, which is linked
underground to the modern
 Saint George and the Dragon by Raphael,
Giorgione, Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1500
1506
 The National Gallery of Art collection
• The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and
American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and
decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the 
Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes
two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi
 by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, 
Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, 
Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas)
and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
Claude Monet, The Artist's Garden at
Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth
Vétheuil, 1880
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