Museu de Belles Arts de València
The Museu de Belles Arts de València (Valencian pronunciation: [muˈzɛw ðe ˈbeʎez ˈaɾdz de vaˈlensia]; Spanish: Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia; English: "Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia") is an art gallery in Valencia, Spain, founded in 1913. It houses some 2,000 works, most dating from the 14th–17th centuries, including a Self portrait of Diego Velázquez, a St. John the Baptist by El Greco, Goya's Playing Children, Gonzalo Pérez's Altarpiece of Sts. Ursula, Martin and Antony and a Madonna with Writing Child and Bishop by the Italian Renaissance master Pinturicchio. It houses a large series of engravings by Giovan Battista Piranesi.
Museu de Belles Arts de València | |
External view of the museum | |
Established | 24 July 1913 |
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Location | 9 San Pío V street – Valencia, (Spain) |
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Type | Art museum |
Curator | Generalitat Valenciana |
Website | Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia |
The museum is in the St. Pius V Palace, built in the 17th–18th centuries. It has also sections dedicated to sculpture, to contemporary art and to archaeological findings.
Artworks
- Coronación de la Virgen en presencia de San Pedro y San Pablo. Unknown master.
- San Lucas incorporado al Colegio Apostólico. Unknown master.
- San Lucas recibiendo de la Virgen su Verónica. Unknown master.
- Verònica. Gonzalo Pérez.
- The Flagellation. Vrancke van der Stockt.
- St James and St Giles Abad. Jacomart.
- Cristo ante Pilatos.Francisco de Osona.
- Passion Triptych. Follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
- Flagellation. Hernando de los Llanos.
- Presentation of the Virgin to the Temple. Calzada Master.
- Christ the Saviour. Juan de Juanes.
- The Adoration of the Shepherds. Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
- Aparición de Cristo resucitado a la Virgen. Fernando Yanez de la Almedina.
- Pietà. Master of Artes.
- The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah. Circle of Maerten de Vos.
- Nursing Madonna. Bartolomé Bermejo.
- Virgen de la Leche con el niño Jesús, San Juanito y un Ángel. Vincente Juan Macip.
- Saint Agata. Massimo Stanzione.
- Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene and a Maid. Matthias Stom.
- Resurrección de Cristo. Fernando Yanez de la Almedina.
- St. Michael the Archangel. Miguel Esteve.
- Saul atentando contra David. Francisco Fernández.
- Self Portrait. Diego Velázquez.
- Marina con torre y barcas. Jan van Goyen.
- Martirio de San Bartolomé. Luca Giordano.
- Embarcadero. Circle of Adrien Manglard.
- Portrait of Francisco Bayeu. Francisco Goya.
- Ramón María Narváez, primer duque de Valencia, Vicente López Portaña.
- Grupa valenciana. Joaquín Sorolla.
External links
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