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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.
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.
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.
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 List of painters in the National Gallery of Art is a list of the named artists in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. whose works there comprise oil paintings, gouaches, tempera paintings, and pastels. The online collection contains roughly 4,000 paintings by 1,000 artists, but only named painters with the previously mentioned ...
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 ...
Collections of the National Gallery of Art, located in Washington, D.C., United States. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The Arts Club of Washington is a private club to promote the Arts in Washington, D.C. Founded by Bertha Noyes in May 1916, its first president was Henry Kirke Bush-Brown ; Mathilde Mueden Leisenring was among its original members, [ 1 ] as were Susan Brown Chase , Catharine Carter Critcher , Lola Sleeth Miller , Bertha E. Perrie , and Mary Gine ...