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Your space for art Open daily 10am-6pmFriday until 9pm Closed 24-26 December and 1 January Admission free Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN Charing Cross, Leicester Square Plan your visit

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The New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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The Whitney Museum of American Art. Explore works, exhibitions, and events online. Located in New York City.

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The focus of the painting is a sad clown, smoking a cigarette. The mood of the clown is portrayed through the blue tones in the background.

Soir Bleu, Edward Hopper, 1914

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Not the Official Site for Uffizi - An Unofficial Guide to the Uffizi Gallery

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Uffizi Gallery Collection:Must See Artworks at Uffizi Museum in Florence

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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

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Sitio web del Museo Reina Sofía. Información y programación de exposiciones, colección, actividades y proyectos de investigación en red.

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Visit the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum in NYC. See the renowned permanent collection, special exhibitions.

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The Met collection represents more than 5,000 years of art from across the globe-from the first cities of the ancient world to works being created today.

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Bienvenidos al Museo del Prado, una institución casi bicentenaria cuyo origen y poderosa singularidad debe mucho a los gustos de los monarcas de los siglos XVI y XVII. El coleccionismo entonces difería del actual. Sin pretensiones enciclopédicas, aspiraba a reunir cuantas obras fuera posible de los artistas predilectos. Ello explica que del Prado se haya dicho que es un museo de pintores, no de pinturas, pues los artistas representados suelen estarlo de forma superlativa, pudiendo preciarse de poseer los mayores conjuntos de El Bosco, Tiziano, El Greco, Rubens, Velázquez o Goya, a veces con más de un centenar obras. Este tipo de coleccionismo, visceralmente pasional, generaba también lagunas, y explica que unos períodos estén peor representados que otros, a veces porque entonces no interesaban, como sucedía con los "primitivos" italianos, otras por circunstancias históricas, como ocurrió con la pintura holandesa del Seiscientos.

El primer pintor coleccionado por los monarcas españoles, y el pilar sobre el que se erigió la colección real, fue Tiziano. La elección tuvo consecuencias decisivas para el coleccionismo regio e incluso para la propia evolución de la pintura española. Al decantarse por el campeón del color en detrimento de los pintores florentinos y romanos que defendían la primacía del "disegno", los monarcas optaron por una pintura que primaba sus aspectos más emotivos y sensuales. A Tiziano siguieron otros venecianos (Veronese, Tintoretto) y aquellos artistas que asumieron su legado, como los flamencos Pedro Pablo Rubens y Anton Van Dyck, y la influencia de unos y otros fue decisiva para la eclosión de la pintura española en el siglo XVII, con Velázquez a la cabeza. Esta fue la viga maestra de la antigua colección real, pero no fue la única. Otros pintores y escuelas fueron incorporados desde el siglo XVI. Felipe II gustó de la pintura flamenca del XV -lo que explica nuestras colecciones de van der Weyden, Memling y, sobre todo, el Bosco- y aún más decisivo fue Felipe IV, quien no sólo encargó obras a ya citados Rubens, Velázquez y Van Dyck, también al español activo en Nápoles José de Ribera, a los franceses Nicolás Poussin y Claudio de Lorena, y a pintores italianos que contribuyeron a decorar sus múltiples residencias. Procuró además paliar lagunas existentes, agregando a la colección artistas italianos del Renacimiento italiano no veneciano como Rafael, Parmigianino o Correggio. A su muerte la colección real española era la mejor de Europa y el modelo a imitar.

Con el advenimiento de la dinastía Borbón llegaron los pintores franceses, dando inicio a un siglo, el XVIII, dominado por artistas foráneos. A los franceses les sucedieron los italianos y, en el tercer cuarto de la centuria, Madrid fue escenario de una de las rivalidades artísticas más fascinantes de Europa, cuando Carlos III empleó a dos artífices antagónicos en sus formas de entender y practicar la pintura: el veneciano Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, brillante epígono de la gran tradición, y el bohemio formado en Roma Anton Raphael Mengs, heraldo del neoclasicismo. Sólo a finales del siglo, con Goya, vuelve un pintor español a dominar el escenario cortesano.

El Prado y sus colecciones son reflejo de la historia de España, cuyo menguante papel internacional en el siglo XIX mermó su atractivo para artistas foráneos. Son ahora los españoles quienes se educan y trabajan fuera: en Roma a principios de la centuria, y desde mediados en París, convertida en capital mundial del arte. De ello, del fervor nacionalista que recorrió el siglo, y que nuestros pintores plasmaron en lienzos que celebraban sus gentes, paisajes e historia,y de la desamortización de los bienes eclesiásticos que, vía Museo de la Trinidad, contribuyeron decisivamente a acrecentar los fondos procedentes de la Corona, dan fe nuestras colecciones, que se cierran en 1881, año de nacimiento de Picasso. Y unas colecciones que, aunque mayoritariamente pictóricas, comprenden asimismo excepcionales testimonios escultóricos, de artes decorativas y de obras sobre papel, de la Antigüedad al siglo XIX.

Desde su creación en 1819 el Museo del Prado ha sido un decisivo actor del progreso de la historia del arte. Ha sido determinante en la recuperación de los primitivos españoles y de figuras emblemáticas como El Greco, en el encumbramiento de Velázquez a la cúspide del Parnaso pictórico español, y sus salas han servido de inspiración a algunos de los pintores más vanguardistas de los últimos 150 años. Tal es el acervo que mostramos orgullosos a nuestros visitantes.

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Bienvenidos al Museo del Prado, una institución casi bicentenaria cuyo origen y poderosa singularidad debe mucho a los gustos de los monarcas de los siglos XVI y XVII. El coleccionismo entonces difería del actual. Sin pretensiones enciclopédicas, aspiraba a reunir cuantas obras fuera posible de los artistas predilectos.

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No other symphonic composition has met with such a broad and complex reception as Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony Number 9 in D minor, opus 125, popularly known as the Choral Symphony. The work marked an important development in 19th century music. In the finale, Beethoven set to music the German poet Friedrich von Schiller's An die Freude (Ode to joy), the first time the human voice was included in a symphonic work. The symphony was first performed in Vienna on May 7, 1824. Its influence ever since has extended far beyond the field of music. The work has inspired poets, writers, and visual artists, and it has provoked aesthetic and philosophical argument and discussion. Above all, the symphony has at all times proclaimed to people of good will its message of joy and the global brotherhood of humanity. Composers influenced by the work have included Schubert, Berlioz, Brahms, Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler, and many others. The autograph score of Beethoven's Ninth is held, almost in its entirety, in the music department of Berlin State Library-Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Some sheets from the score that were removed in the 19th century are held at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn and in the National Library of France in Paris. The original score of the symphony was added to the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2001, where it joins other outstanding monuments to the spiritual heritage of mankind.

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No other symphonic composition has met with such a broad and complex reception as Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony Number 9 in D minor, opus 125, popularly known as the Choral Symphony. The work marked an important development in 19th century music.

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