The Crocker Art Museum is a museum in Sacramento, California; one of the largest museums in the Western United States (formerly the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery). It displays works from the Gold Rush era to the present day. In 1869, banker and landowner Edwin Bryant Crocker and his wife Margaret Crocker began collecting paintings […]
London National Gallery is one of the largest art galleries of the British capital. There are more than two thousand masterpieces of Western European painting from the XII to the XX centuries in it, and all pictures in the exposition are located in chronological order. The gallery was opened on April 9, 1839, but the […]
Among the many museums, the Brera Gallery in Milan has been a true jewel of Italian art for more than two hundred years. Founded in 1809 at the Academy of Art, the Brera Gallery became a haven for budding artists and sculptors and, as if it had foreseen its destiny, it became the largest gallery […]
There are dozens of reasons why you should trade a beautiful sunny day in Emilia-Romagna for the semi-darkness of the magnificent halls of the National Gallery of Parma. For example, you can wait out the hot siesta hours here for the benefit of your body and your soul, or you can take a purposeful trip […]
The Dresden Picture Gallery, also known as the Old Masters Gallery, is located in one of the most famous cities in Germany. The museum has an extensive collection of masterpieces of world art created by the great masters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. History of the Dresden Art Gallery German Gallery opened in 1560. […]
The National Gallery of Slovenia is a large art museum located in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana. The gallery has a huge number of old paintings of different styles and genres. National Gallery of Slovenia was founded in 1918 and currently has the largest collection of paintings in the country. The gallery includes old paintings, written […]
The Dulwich Picture Gallery is one of the most famous and interesting art museums in England’s capital city, London. It was opened in 1817 in a building that was built by architect John Soane specifically for the gallery. The Dulwich Picture Gallery was born out of the work of two great people, the Frenchman Noël […]
The Gallery of Contemporary Art opened in 1997 in an unusual cubic building next to the Kunsthalle. The architecture of the museum provoked heated debates. Today under the roof of the gallery are works by contemporary artists from the 1960s to the present day. In 1937 the ruling Nazis classified more than 70 works from […]
Dublin boasts the world’s finest collection of Irish paintings, with priceless canvases in the local National Gallery.Here you can also admire beautiful paintings by Italian, Dutch, French, Spanish and German masters, so the tour promises to be fascinating. There are two buildings at the gallery’s disposal. One of them was clearly created by architects of […]