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The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. 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.
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts is an annual public lecture series, hosted by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., based on topics in the fine arts. Established in 1949 from an endowed gift from Ailsa Mellon Bruce and her brother, Paul Mellon, the series held its first lecture in 1952.
The Flag is Bleeding was acquired directly from Ringgold's collection by the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C., in October 2021 with support from Glenstone in Potomac, Maryland. [3] NGA senior curator Harry Cooper said the acquisition "may well be the most important purchase of a single work of contemporary art" for the museum ...
National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, D.C., is home to a number of museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, whose museums include the Anacostia Museum, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Hirshhorn Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of the ...
When complete it will comprise approximately thirty volumes documenting more than 5000 works of art. Prints and drawings were excluded from the project as being too many in number. [ 2 ] The second volume, prepared by Jonathan Brown and Richard G. Mann , covered Spanish paintings of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries and was published in 1990.
Madonna and Child (Perugino, Washington) Madonna and Child (Gentile da Fabriano, Washington) Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist; Magdalene at a Mirror; Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria; The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew (Ribera, 1634) Masked Ball at the Opera House; The Maas at Dordrecht; May Night (Willard Metcalf ...
Giovanni Cariani, A Concert, oil on canvas, 92 x 130 cm, c. 1518–1520.National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Giovanni Cariani (c. 1490 –1547), also known as Giovanni Busi or Il Cariani, was an Italian painter of the high-Renaissance, active in Venice and the Venetian mainland, including Bergamo, thought to be his native city.
In October 2022 the National Gallery of Art announced that while the museum was closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, its team of conservators, curators, and scientists examined the painting using microscopic pigment analysis and advanced imaging technology, and concluded that the work was not painted by Vermeer, and that as of October 8, 2022 ...