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Museu de Belles Arts de València


The Museu de Belles Arts de València (Valencian pronunciation: [muˈzɛw ðe ˈβeʎez 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 also houses a large series of engravings by Giovan Battista Piranesi.

The museum is housed 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.

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple. Calzada Master.

Ecce Homo. San Narciso Master.

The Flagellation. Vrancke van der Stockt workshop.

Triptych of the Adoration of the Magicians. Master of Public Assistance Museum of Brussels.

Adoration of the Shepherds. Pieter Coecke van Aelst.

The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah. Obrador de Maerten de Vos.

Ramón María Narváez, primer duque de Valencia. Vicente López Portaña.



Coordinates: 39°28′44″N 0°22′16″W / 39.479°N 0.371°W / 39.479; -0.371


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