NATIONAL GALLERY
INTRODUCTION
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The gallery was founded on the initiative of a former United States Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon. Mellon donated his collection of 121 works of art to the country, which include...
ANNUNCIATION BY JAN VAN EYCK
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Jan van Eyck is the most important exponent of Flemish painting, yet we know very little about him, so much so that not even his date of birth is certain, which is believed to be between 1390 and...
GINEVRA DE BENCI BY LEONARDO DA VINCI
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This painting is the only one by Leonardo da Vinci, the most famous and well-known artist of the Renaissance, that you can see in the Americas.
It is an oil-on-wood portrait, painted by Leonardo in...
SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON BY RAPHAEL
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In this painting, Raffaello Sanzio–commonly known as Raphael–portrays the legend that emerged in the Middle East during the Crusades, which recounts how St. George, a soldier of the Roman...
LAOCOÖN BY EL GRECO
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This painting depicts the death of Laocoön who, according to Greek mythology, was killed together with his two sons by the goddess Athena, who had them strangled by sea serpents for trying to...
WOMAN HOLDING A BALANCE BY VERMEER
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The Washington National Gallery has an overwhelming four of the approximately 35 paintings attributed to Jan Vermeer, the alias of Johannes Van der Meer, one of the most famous painters in the world....
KEELMEN BY TURNER
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Considered to be a master of light and color, not to mention one of the greatest exponents of Romanticism in painting, Joseph Mallord William Turner is featured in the National Gallery with six of his...
THE RAILWAY BY MANET
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Edouard Manet, born into a rich and influential middle-class family in Paris, is one of the greatest representatives of French painting.
He is often wrongly associated with Impressionists. The truth...
SELF PORTRAIT BY VAN GOGH
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Of the many works by Vincent van Gogh that you can see at the National Gallery, this self-portrait is undoubtedly the most famous.
Van Gogh painted around 36 self-portraits, so much so that he became...
THE SALTIMBANQUES BY PICASSO
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The “Family of Saltimbanques”, painted in 1905 when Pablo Picasso was only 24, is one of the most important and renowned paintings by the Spanish painter from the Rose Period of his...
