The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. The National Gallery of Art serves the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and [...]
The Louvre evolved from a 12th century fortress; the dwelling of François I and, later, the palace of the Sun King, Louis XIV into an extraordinary museum which opened in 1793. A museum among museums. Accumulated riches of art, on a scale unrivaled anywhere in the world, makes the Louvre a place of learning, delight, [...]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York... encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts..." By the twentieth century, the Met had become one of the world's great art centers. Today, the Met's two-million-square-foot building houses over two million objects, tens [...]
The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries. The National Gallery Collection [...]
