National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art is a famous art museum situated in National Mall, in Washington D.C. It was open free of cost to public and the museum got established during the year 1937 for people of US by joint decision of United States Congress and Andrew w. Mellon who donated the funds of construction and art collection. Additionally the core collection has many art works donated by Ailsa Mellon, Paul Mellon, Samuel Henry kress, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Peter Arrel Brown. The collection of gallery has drawings, paintings, photographs, medals, sculpture, decorative arts and development of Western Arts from recent ages to present which include famous painting of Leonarda da Vinci in Americas and famous mobile that was created by Alexander Calder.
The campus of the Gallery includes the famous neoclassical west building which was created by John Russell pope that was linked underground with modern east building which was created by I.M Pei, with a sculpture of garden of 6.1 acres. The art gallery conducts temporary special exhibitions traversing the world and the history of art. The museum is composed of 2 buildings, the East Building (1978) and the West Building (1941) which is linked together by very good underground passage. The West Building contains pink Tennessee marble and was designed by John Russell Pope, a famous architect in the year 1937.
The National Gallery of Art contains some of the finest art collections in world. The gallery was opened in 1937, by Andrew W. Mellon, a public servant and financier donated the funds for the art gallery with joint resolution of congress for people of US. Many American and European Paintings, paper works, sculpture, decorative arts, sculpture. The famous collection is the renaissance collection from Italy that includes 2 panels from Duccio’s Maesta, which includes the great tondo of Adoration of the Magi by Filippo Lippi and Fra Angelico, a Botticelli on same subject, Feast of Gods by Bellini, Giorgione’s Allendale Nativity, the famous Leonardo painting in America and many other famous group of work by Raphael and Titian.
But the other European collection will include examples of work from famous masters which include Durer, van der weyden, Goya, Delacroix, Ingres, Rembrandt and many others. The collection of decorative arts and sculpture is not as rich, but it contains many works like Chalice of Abbot Suger and a famous collection of work by Degas and Rodin.