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Welcome to the 360° Walkabout through the Hamburger Kunsthalle. This virtual tour comprises twelve of the museum's halls including spaces of particularly striking architectural appeal like the historical staircase, the study hall or the atrium of the Gallery of Contemporary Art. You can enjoy more than 150 works, from Meister Bertram to Caspar David Friedrich to Sigmar Polke. Complementing the tour are short texts and audio tracks on selected highlights. This walkabout has been made possible by a partnership with the Stiftung Kulturglück.

At the far right of the legend on the bottom you can open and close a floor plan showing you the various viewpoints in the house. Just click and you go straight there. With the full-screen button the view is enlarged to fill the entire screen. The icon at the centre displays a list of works from the various viewpoints in the room. The tour offers spectacular 360-degree views that give you the impression of standing right in the exhibition halls. The special technology behind the high-resolution pictures affords unique perspectives, for example, into the cupola or the historical staircases, which could not be experienced like this even in real life.

Moreover, the virtual tour through more than 120 viewpoints puts you right in front of the works, allowing you to examine them in detail. Via the viewpoints in front of the works you can also access further information: if you go to the indicator plate on the photo, the technical and other details related to the work open up in an extra window. Short texts on the selected artworks are marked with an i. In addition, you can call up audio tracks on some of the works during your tour.

Supported by: Stiftung Kulturglück

Realization

Marco Vedana (www.documentart.de)

Editors

Martina Gschwilm, Dr Katharina Hoins, Elisabeth Lutz-Bachmann

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Welcome to the 360° Walkabout through the Hamburger Kunsthalle. This virtual tour comprises twelve of the museum's halls including spaces of particularly striking architectural appeal like the historical staircase, the study hall or the atrium of the Gallery of Contemporary Art. You can enjoy more than 150 works, from Meister Bertram to Caspar David Friedrich to Sigmar Polke.

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Museum Island Berlin - Google Arts & Culture

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Gestern, heute, morgen: Vieles, was in Berlin passiert, hat Einfluss auf die Welt. Und vieles, was in der Welt passiert, wirkt auf Berlin. BERLIN GLOBAL zeigt auf 4.000 Quadratmetern im Humboldt Forum, wie die Stadt und ihre Menschen mit der Welt verbunden sind.

Der Raum Weltdenken heißt die Besucher:innen willkommen, der Raum Berlin-Bilder führt in die Themen der Ausstellung ein. Ihnen folgen die einzelnen Themenräume: Sie erzählen von Revolution, Freiraum, Grenzen, Vergnügen, Krieg, Mode und Verflechtung. Aspekte, die sich auch in anderen Metropolen finden lassen, die aber in dieser Kombination typisch für Berlin sind.

In der Ausstellung kommen die zu Wort, die sich auskennen: Menschen, die hier leben, Expert:innen, Künstler:innen, Initiativen und Vereine: Ihre Erzählungen, Erfahrungen und Perspektiven machen BERLIN GLOBAL lebendig.

Die Berlin Ausstellung im Humboldt Forum ist als Koproduktion zwischen der Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH und dem Stadtmuseum Berlin entstanden. Konzept und Inhalte der Ausstellung wurden von einem Team unter Federführung von Paul Spies, Chef-Kurator des Landes Berlin im Humboldt Forum und Direktor der Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, erarbeitet.

Kulturprojekte Berlin realisierte die Produktion der Ausstellung und war bis zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung im Juli 2021 verantwortlich für Kommunikation und Vermittlungsarbeit.

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Virtual tour at the Acropolis Museum | Acropolis Museum | Official website

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The Acropolis Museum, one of the most important museums in the world, houses the findings of only one archaeological site, the Athenian Acropolis and its slopes. The masterpieces that form its collection offer a comprehensive overview of the character and historical course of the site that became a global landmark of both the ancient and the modern world.

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Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, UK

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Art Gallery of Ontario, Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Art Gallery of Ontario, Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Stamford Road, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore

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Mauritshuis, Plein, The Hague, Netherlands

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Mauritshuis, Plein, The Hague, Netherlands

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As well as being able to visit the Mauritshuis in person, you can also experience it in a lifelike virtual environment. We are the first museum in the world to have been fully digitised in gigapixel format

By bringing this together with the Maurithuis's existing Second Canvas app, the wonderful stories behind the paintings are also revealed and you can zoom in on the brushstrokes. No fewer than 36 masterpieces, including all the Vermeers, four Rembrandts, three Jan Steens, Fabritius's Goldfinch and The Bull by Paulus Potter, can all be enjoyed in exquisite detail.

The virtual museum can be visited by clicking the image above, or in the Second Canvas app of the Mauritshuis, available in the AppStore or Google Play.

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As well as being able to visit the Mauritshuis in person, you can also experience it in a lifelike virtual environment. We are the first museum in the world to have been fully digitised in gigapixel format By bringing this together with the Maurithuis's existing Second Canvas app, the wonderful stories behind the paintings are also revealed and you can zoom in on the brushstrokes.

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Amos Rex, Mannerheimintie, Helsinki, Finland

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Amos Rex, Mannerheimintie, Helsinki, Finland

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Amos Rex, Mannerheimintie, Helsinki, Finland

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National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West, Dublin 2, Ireland

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The National Gallery of Ireland is home to the national collection of Irish and European art.

The Gallery has an extensive collection of Irish painting and is also notable for its Italian Baroque and Dutch masters painting.

A Virtual Tour of the National Gallery of Ireland

Highlights Tour of the National Gallery of Ireland

"The Taking of Christ" by Caravaggio depicts the arrest of Jesus just as Judas kisses Jesus to identify him for the soldiers.

There are seven figures in the painting; they are John, Jesus, Judas, three soldiers, and a man holding a lantern to the scene. The figures are portrayed before a very dark background.

The man at the right holding a lantern is believed to be a self-portrait of Caravaggio. At the far left, St John is fleeing as a soldier is grabbing his cloak.

The Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio would have had many influences on the composition of this masterpiece.

One of these influences may have been a 1509 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer in which the central group is comprised of Jesus, Judas, and the soldier with an outstretched hand, resembling this version of Caravaggio's "The Taking of Christ."

This story from the New Testament was in high demand as a painting, as there are at least 12 known actual copies of this painting. At least one is believed to be an original copy made by Caravaggio.

"The Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate" by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya is a portrait of the actress Antonia Zárate. It was produced in Goya's studio, and it shows her wearing a fashionable black silk dress in the Empire style.

Fingerless white gloves cover her arms, she holds a closed fan, and a mantilla covers her head and shoulders.

Antonia Zárate was the daughter of an actor and director of a performing company.

She continued in the family tradition as an actress and singer with success throughout Spain but mainly acted in the Spanish capital, where she became a friend of Francisco Goya.

"Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs" by Frederic William Burton depicts an imagined romantic moment from a story with a sad ending.

The story is taken from a medieval Danish ballad, which tells the story of Hellelil, who fell in love with her personal guard Hildebrand.

Her father disapproved of the relationship and ordered her seven brothers to kill the young prince. Burton portrays the final meeting of the two lovers.

The artist, Frederic William Burton (1816 - 1900) was an Irish painter. Educated in Dublin, he visited Germany and Bavaria in 1842.

He then started a series of trips to various parts of Europe, which allowed him to develop a profound knowledge of the works of the Old Masters.

From 1851 he spent seven years working as a painter in the service of Maximilian II of Bavaria.

"Cupid and Psyche in the Nuptial Bower" by Hugh Douglas Hamilton depicts the lovers in a woodland setting, where their pale bodies contrast dramatically with the dark surroundings.

Psyche's wings are those of a butterfly, a symbol of the soul, and consistent with Ancient Greek representations. In the bottom right of the painting, a butterfly rests on a rose.

The rose is an attribute of Cupid, as are his bow and quiver on the ground. Ivy growing in the background, meanwhile, represents immortality.

National Gallery of Ireland

Museum: National Gallery of Ireland

City: Dublin

Established: 1864

Type: Art museum

Location: Merrion Square West, Dublin, Ireland

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"I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet."
- Irish Proverb

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National Gallery of Ireland - Virtual Tour The National Gallery of Ireland is home to the national collection of Irish and European art. The Gallery has an extensive collection of Irish painting and is also notable for its Italian Baroque and Dutch masters painting. A Virtual Tour of the National Gallery of Ireland "The Taking [...]

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Hermitage Museum, Palace Square, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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The State Hermitage Museum is an art and culture museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

It is one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, having been founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, the collections consist of over three million items.

The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along the Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors.

A Virtual Tour of the Hermitage Museum

Highlights of the Hermitage Museum

The "Madonna Litta" painting has traditionally been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. However, scholarly opinion is divided on the work's creators.

Some experts believe this is the work of one of Leonardo's pupils. The Hermitage Museum, which owns this 1490s masterpiece, considers the painting to be an autograph work by Leonardo.

Madonna Litta depicts the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the Christ child, a devotional subject known as the Nursing Madonna.

The figures are set in a dark interior with two arched openings showing an aerial view of a mountainous landscape. Of particular interest, note that in the center of the painting, in Christ's left hand, is a goldfinch, which is symbolic of his future Passion.

Composition VI by Kandinsky by Vasily Kandinsky also spelled Wassily, is an expressive abstract that is independent of forms and lines.

Music was an essential catalyst for early abstract art, and Kandinsky used musical terms to identify his works. He called his spontaneous paintings "improvisations" and described elaborate works, such as this painting, as "compositions."

In many of Kandinsky's works, the identification of the forms and the masses present on the canvas require a more elaborate analysis.

The inner reality of the art requires a more profound observation of the relationship of all the elements and their harmony. Kandinsky was an early champion of abstract painting; he is famous for his lyrical style and innovative theories on nonfigurative art.

"The Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate" by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya is a portrait of the actress Antonia Zárate. It was produced in Goya's studio, and it shows her wearing most likely an outfit from one of her performances.

Antonia Zárate was the daughter of an actor and director of a performing company.

She continued in the family tradition as an actress and singer with success throughout Spain but mainly acted in the Spanish capital, where she became a friend of Francisco Goya.

"White House at Night" by Vincent van Gogh was created six weeks before his death. It is thought that van Gogh painted "White House at Night" around 8:00 PM, based on the position of the "star" in the painting.

Astronomers calculated that the star in the picture must be Venus, which was bright in the evening sky in June 1890. Does this painting express Van Gogh' s psychological tension?

The painting itself has had a turbulent history. In the late 1920s, it became part of a private collection of a German industrialist.

Pictures of this style were labeled "degenerate art" by the Nazis, which contributed to this painting and other Post-Impressionism paintings being kept secret.

"The Three Graces" by Antonio Canova is a statue of the three mythological charities who were daughters of Zeus. Zeus was the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus.

The three sisters are identified as Euphrosyne, Aglaea, and Thalia, from left to right. They represent youth and beauty, she is named Thalia, mirth, is named Euphrosyne, and elegance is called Aglaea.

The Graces presided over banquets and gatherings, to delight the guests of the gods. The Three Graces have inspired many artists and have served as subjects for many artists.

The civilization of ancient Egypt produced ancient Egyptian art in the Nile Valley from about 3000 BC to 30 AD.

Ancient Egyptian art reached a high level of sophistication in painting and sculpture but in a highly stylized and symbolic form.

It was highly conservative, and styles changed remarkably little over more than three thousand years. Much of the surviving art comes from tombs and monuments.

The tomb art was never meant to be seen by people and was produced for the afterlife.

The Gonzaga Cameo is a Hellenistic engraved gem dating from the 3rd century BC.

The two profiles form a couple who at various times have been identified as Alexander the Great and Olympias, Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, Nero, and Agrippina the Younger, and many other famous couples of antiquity.

The male figure is clad in the attributes of Alexander. These attributes include a laurel-wreathed helmet which is crowned by a snake.

The Alexander figure also has on his cape a gorgoneion figure and a bearded head, probably that of Zeus Ammon.

The brown necklace is a later addition to mask the fact that the cameo was, at some point, broken in half at the necks of the figures

"Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss" by Antonio Canova shows the mythological lovers at a moment of high emotion.

It represents the god Cupid in the height of love and tenderness, immediately after awakening Psyche with a kiss.

Having been awakened, Psyche reaches up toward her lover, Cupid, as he gently holds her by supporting her head and breast.

This sculpture exemplifies Antonio Canova's craftsmanship and skills in carving marble that provides a superb contrast between the smooth skin of Psyche and Cupid as compared to the surrounding elements.

The detached draping around Psyche's lower body, emphasizes the difference between the texture of skin and drapery.

Beautiful curls and lines define the hair, and the feathery details create the realistic wings of Cupid. The rough stone texture provides the basis of the rock upon which the composition is placed.

"The Stolen Kiss" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicts a kiss between two lovers, showing a young lady in a cream-colored silk gown who has left the group women in the next room for a secret meeting with a young man.

Fragonard's painting displays the kind of eroticism and romantic folly that was popular before the French Revolution among French aristocrats.

This scene of voyeurism depicts the stolen kiss in lavish surroundings, containing luxurious details of textures, silks, and lace, like the rug with flower pattern, silk draperies, her shawl on the chair, the elegantly clad ladies that are visible through the open door.

"Boulevard Montmartre: Afternoon, Sunshine" by Camille Pissarro became part of a thirteen artwork series of the famous Boulevard. Pissarro painted it in 1897 after renting a room at the Grand Hotel de Russie in Paris with a perfect view.

Pissarro wanted to capture the true essence of the busy Parisian street. From his elevated hotel balcony, he obtains a bird' s-eye view of the people, carriages, and life that passed before him.

"Three Tahitian Women Against a Yellow Background" by Paul Gauguin depicts the world of the so-called "savages," which the artist believed preserved that natural harmony which had been lost by the "civilization" of Europe.

Gauguin's work contains unclear symbolic meanings, while at the same time, his artistic achievement of harmony of color and graceful lines have made him highly popular artist after his death.

"Conestabile Madonna" by Raphael portrays the Madonna holding the Child while reading a book. This small devotional piece is unfinished as it was the last work painted by Raphael in Umbria before moving to Florence.

In 1881 the painting was transferred from wood to canvas for its preservation. During the preservation process, it was discovered that in the initial version, the Madonna was contemplating a pomegranate, the symbol of the Passion, instead of the book.

"Struggle between Tiger and Bull" by Henri Rousseau depicts an idealized "primitive" fantasy of a tiger attacking a bull in a jungle setting.

This painting is similar to Rousseau's other artworks depicting animals amongst foliage inspired by the artist's study of Paris' botanical gardens and the many jungle pictures he collected.

Rousseau also took inspiration and adapted the wild beasts from popular ethnographic journals.

"Landscape with Diana and Callisto" by Cornelis van Pulenburg depicts Diana and her nymphs as they unclothed and prepared to bathe in the water.

But one of them, Callisto, refuses to take off her robe. Callisto, who was seduced by Jupiter, who had appeared to her disguised as Diana, is desperately trying to hide her swollen stomach.

Cornelis van Pulenburg depicts the nymphs angrily pulling her clothes off her. Diana, identified by the crescent moon on her hair, banishes the nymph for having lost her virginity.

"The Return of the Prodigal Son" by Rembrandt depicts the moment of the prodigal son's return to his father. In the painting, the son has returned home in a wretched state after he has wasted his inheritance through wastefulness and extravagance.

Having fallen into poverty and despair, he kneels before his father in repentance. The Prodigal Son returns to the farther wishing for forgiveness and a renewed place in the family.

His father receives him with a tender gesture of his hands, suggesting compassion. Rembrandt has made the left hand larger and more masculine, and set it on the son's shoulder, while the right is softer and more receptive in gesture.

It has been suggested that the hands seem to indicate the inclusiveness of both the mothering and fathering gestures.

"Daedalus and Icarus" by Charles Le Brun depicts the fabled inventor Daedalus, who made wings for himself and his son to escape from their prison tower.

The figures are skillfully shown in complex foreshortening, creating a dynamic composition through the use of contrasts in light and shade.

The cold greenish-blue of the ominous sky and the warm golden-brown draperies contrast with the pale body of Icarus. In Greek mythology, Daedalus was a skillful architect and craftsman full of wisdom and knowledge.

He invented and built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. However, after finishing the Labyrinth, the King had Daedalus imprisoned to preserve the secrets of the Labrinth.

Daedalus and his son Icarus devised a plan to escape by using wings made of wax that Daedalus had invented.

The Aphrodite Kallipygos or Venus Callipyge is a famous Ancient Roman marble statue, which is a copy of an older Greek original.

It depicts a partially draped woman, raising her peplos to reveal her hips and back, and looking back and down over her shoulder. The subject is conventionally identified as Venus and some versions use her Greek name, Aphrodite.

This statue is a copy of the Venus Callipyge from the Farnese Collection dates to the late 1st century BC. The lost Greek original on which it is based is thought to have been bronze, and to have been created around 300 BC."

Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog by Claude Monet depicts the bridge crosses the River Thames in London. Its name commemorates the victory of the British at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Positioned at a strategic bend in the river, it provides the best ground-level views of Westminster and the London Eye to the west, and the City of London and Canary Wharf to the east.

From his room in the Savoy Hotel, Monet had a view over the Thames towards Waterloo Bridge. Monet's first layers of paint were very thin, the thicker areas were developing as he continued to add layers and rework the surface.

Monet captured a moment's passing impression, which gave Impressionism its name. His trips to London in 1889, 1900, and 1901 seemed to fall always in the foggy season.

"Napoleon, during his campaign in Egypt" by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicts Napoleon Bonaparte as a general of the French Revolution on a camel during his Egyptian expedition.

Napoleon arrived in Egypt with his generals in 1798 and attempted to add this territory to France's growing empire. The British defeated the French navy at the "Battle of the Nile," one of the greatest naval disasters of all time.

The loss of the French Navy put an end to Napoleon's dreams of expansion to Africa. The campaign ended in defeat for Napoleon, and the withdrawal of French troops from the region.

"Memory of the Garden at Etten" by Vincent van Gogh depicts the artist's mother and sister. The garden refers to the parsonage garden at Etten, now Etten-Leur, in the Netherlands, where Vincent's father, a pastor, had been appointed.

Vincent's father, Theodorus van Gogh, had been assigned to Etten as a pastor. Vincent spent periods there, notably from Easter to Christmas 1881, when he returned to join his brother Theo, an art dealer.

This period at Etten represents the beginning of Vincent's ten-year career as an artist. He had returned to Etten intending to set up a studio there.

However, that summer, Vincent became obsessed with his recently widowed cousin Kee Vos-Stricker, who had been invited to stay over the summer with her eight-year-old son Jan.

Vincent and Kee started taking pleasant walks together, and Vincent developed tender and romantic feelings.

Within the fortnight Vincent proposed marriage. She famously rebuffed him and quickly left for Amsterdam and never wanting to deal with him again.

"Boats on the Beach of Saintes-Maries" by Vincent van Gogh is a watercolor on paper of the same composition as the previous oil painting. The complementary, contrasting colors bring a higher intensity to this work.

This watercolor version demonstrates Van Gogh's effective use and increasing confidence in using pairs of complementary or contrasting colors.

Van Gogh later writes about the liveliness and interplay of the colors as: "a wedding of two complementary colors, their mingling, and opposition, the mysterious vibrations of two kindred souls."

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is situated in the Rhône River delta, about 1 km east of the mouth of the Petit Rhône distributary. In 1888, Van Gogh made several paintings of the seascape and the town. At that time, Saintes-Maries was a small fishing village with under a hundred homes.

"Le Bassin du Jas de Bouffan" by Paul Cézanne depicts the pond at the Bastide du Jas de Bouffan which is a historic manor house in Aix-en-Provence, France.

The bastide was purchased by banker Louis-Auguste Cézanne, the father of famed painter Paul Cézanne, in 1859. In 1880, Paul Cézanne established a studio in the attic. After his father's death, he lived in the manor with his mother.

Paul Cézanne created several paintings portraying the pool, gardens, and many of the available views from multiple different vantage points.

In this painting, the pool is shown in its idyllic form. The greenery provides the overall color scheme, and the harmony of the tones demonstrated his masterly grasp of color.

"Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde" by Edgar Degas depicts the cigar-smoking Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic, his daughters, their dog, and a solitary man on the left at Place de la Concorde in Paris.

The Tuileries Gardens can be seen in the background, behind a stone wall. A large amount of negative space, the cropping, and how the figures are facing in random directions were influenced by photography.

Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic (1839 - 1889) was a French artist, archaeologist, and patron of the arts. He was Edgar Degas's friend and was depicted in some eleven paintings and pastels.

Lepic experimented with etching and developed the technique of 'variable etching' (eau-forte mobile) were, by varying the ink on the plate, he was able to produce individual results at each printing.

Collections of Hermitage Museum

Prehistoric Collection

The Prehistoric Collection dated from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age and was excavated all over Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union and Russian Empire.

Among them is a renowned collection of the art and culture of nomadic tribes of the Altai. The Caucasian exhibition includes a selection of Urartu artifacts from Armenia.

Egyptian and Mesopotamia Collection

The Egyptian collection occupies a large hall on the ground floor in the eastern part of the Winter Palace.

A collection of the culture of Ancient Mesopotamia, including Assyrian reliefs from Babylon, Dur-Sharrukin, and Nimrud, is located in the same part of the building.

Classical Collection

The Classical Collection features Greek artifacts from the third millennium to fifth century BC, ancient Greek pottery, items from the Greek cities, Hellenistic sculpture, and jewelry, including engraved gems and cameos.

Roman art from the 9th to the second century BC, Roman marble and bronze sculpture and applied art from the first century BC - fourth century AD, including copies of Classical and Hellenistic Greek sculptures.

Western European Art Collection

The Western European Art collection includes European paintings, sculpture, and applied art from the 13th to the 20th centuries.

It is displayed on the first and second floors of the four main buildings. Drawings and prints are exhibited in temporary exhibitions.

Jewelry and Decorative Art Collections

The Jewelry and Decorative Art Collections feature western jewelry from the 4th millennium BC to the early 20th century AD.

A highlight of the collection is jewelry from the Pontic steppes, Caucasus, and Asia, in particular, Scythian and Sarmatian gold.

Italian Renaissance Collection

The Italian Renaissance Collection features artists such as Titian, Veronese, Leonardo da Vinci. In the eastern wing of the New Hermitage are paintings, sculptures, majolica, and tapestry from Italy of the 15th-16th centuries.

Italian and Spanish Art Collection

The Italian and Spanish Art Collection features Italian and Spanish canvases of the 15th -18th centuries, including Veronese, Giambattista Pittoni, Tintoretto, Velázquez, Goya, Murillo, Michelangelo, and El Greco.

Arms and Armor Collection

The Arms and Armor Collection features Western European weapons and armor from the 15th-17th centuries and parts of the Hermitage Arsenal collection.

Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque Collection

Devoted to Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting of the 17th century, from artists that including Van Dyck, Rubens and Rembrandt, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Frans Snyders, Gerard ter Borch, Jan van Goyen, and Gerard van Honthorst.

Russian Art Collection

The Russian culture collection hosts Russian art from the 11th-19th centuries.

Impressionist, and post-Impressionist Art Collection

The Impressionist and post-Impressionist art Collection, including works by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Gauguin, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Alfred Sisley, Henri Morel, and Degas.

19 - 20th-Century Art Collection

Modern art 19 - 20th-Century Art features Matisse, Picasso, Malevich, Petrocelli, Kandinsky, Giacomo Manzù, Giorgio Morandi, and Rockwell Kent. Caspar David Friedrich.

Oriental Art Collection

The Oriental Art Collection features collections of Oriental art from China, India, Mongolia, Tibet, Central Asia, Byzantium, and Near East.

Hermitage Museum

Name: Hermitage Museum

City: Saint Petersburg

Country: Russia

Type: Art and Culture Museum

Established: 1754

Location: 38 Palace Embankment, Dvortsovy Municipal Okrug, Saint Petersburg

Hermitage in Facts and Figures

The Main Hermitage Museum Complex consists of the following:

the Winter Palace (1754-1762)

the Small Hermitage (1764 -1769)

the Great (Old) Hermitage (1771-1787)

the Hermitage Theatre (1783-1787)

the New Hermitage (1842-1851)

the Reserve House of the Winter Palace (1726-1742)

The State Hermitage Museum inventory has over 3 million items, in the following categories:

Numismatic Collection - over 1 million items

Archaeological Artifacts - nearly 800 thousand items

Graphical works - over 600 thousand works

Applied Art - over 300 thousand works

Photos - almost 60 thousand items

Paintings - over 17 thousand

Arms and Armory - approximately 14 thousand items

Sculptures - over 12 thousand

Documents - nearly three thousand

Historical Technology - over 2 thousand items

Rare books - over 340

Printed materials - over 270

Other Historical Items over 140 thousand.

The Hermitage Museum is the most extensive art gallery in Russia and is among the largest art museums in the world. It has over 1 thousand rooms, and a walk of over 20 kilometers would be required to see all parts of the Hermitage.

The Hermitage maintains about 50 cats to protect the items from rats and mice.

The Winter Palace was once the official residence of the Romanov Tsars.

The museum was found in 1764 when Catherine the Great bought a collection of 255 paintings from Berlin. This original collection can still be seen at the Hermitage.

The core of the collection is located in five connected buildings of a Hermitage architecture complex. For most visitors, the five buildings are a subtle distinction, and most people refer to the whole complex as the Winter Palace. The address of the main entrance is Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square. Entry to the museum is through the gate across the Great Courtyard. The oCourtyardlegal) address of the museum is 34, Dvortsovaya (Palace) embankment.

Tips for your Hermitage Visit

Purchase your ticket online in advance because the ticket lines can be quite long.

Wear comfortable shoes that will not damage parquet made of primary timber.

Don't touch the exhibits.

Large bags and backpacks need to be left in the cloakroom.

No drinking and eating inside the halls and galleries.

All the bags are X-rayed.

Dress appropriately.

The nearest metro station to the museum is Admiralteyskaya. Also, the stations Nevsky prospect and Gostinny dvor are the next best alternatives.

The café is located on the ground floor, with Internet access via Wi-Fi.

Collect your Museums Map with your entrance ticket.

Don's try and see everything in one day. Focus on the highlights.

Take a Moment to Recharge with a break for coffee, tea, and to eat; you'll be able to enjoy your experience longer.

Opening Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 10.30-18.00; Wednesday, Friday: 10.30-21.00; Closed: Mondays, as well as January 1 and May 9

The museum is closed on Mondays. Check the Museum website for the latest information on holiday closures and opening timings.

Essential Highlights of the Hermitage Museum

The Gala Staircase

The da Vinci Madonnas

Works by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian

The Raphael Loggias

The Rembrandt Collection

The Pavilion Hall

The Italian Fine art

Malachite Room

Peacock Clock

Armorial Hall

A Virtual Tour of the Great Russian Museums

Map for the Hermitage Museum

A Journey through Russia's iconic Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum

"There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is the largest museum of European art in Moscow.

The museum's current name had no direct associations with the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, other than as a posthumous commemoration of his name and fame when it was renamed in his honor in 1937, on the 100th anniversary of his death.

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"Bucentaur's return to the pier by the Palazzo Ducale" by Canaletto depicts the Doge's golden vessel, the Buccentoro returning to the pier during a prestigious Venetian Festival.

The busy canal with its gondolas crowding in on the festival is contrasted with the splendor of Venice.

In exquisite detail, we can see St Mark's Cathedral, the arcades of St Mark's library, the gothic lace of the Doge's palace, the long granite columns and the palazzos.

The Diadem from "Priam's Treasure" at the Pushkin Museum is part of what became called the "Treasure of Priam" discovered in the ancient site of Troy, which is in modern-day Turkey.

Ancient Troy was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle, in particular in the Iliad, one of the epic poems by Homer.

"Priam's Treasure" is a cache of gold and other artifacts discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1873. The objects are spread across multiple museums.

The Houses of Parliament by Claude Monet is one in a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, created during the early 1900s while Monet stayed in London.

All of the series' paintings share the same viewpoint from Monet's terrace at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames and the about similar canvas size.

They depict different times of the day and weather conditions.

"Not to work" by Paul Gauguin depicts two young Tahitians passing the time idling in a hut smoking. Through the window, we can the artist painting outdoors.

The painting symbolizes the relaxed, natural, and contemplative lifestyle of the Tahiti islanders compared to Gauguin's need to creat.

Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and a style that was distinctly different from Impressionism.

He spent the last ten years of his life in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region.

"Horse Attacked by a Jaguar" by Henri Rousseau is jungle paintings depicting a Jaguar attacking a white horse painted with meticulous care.

The horse stares transfixed in a strange contrast of white against lush green.

Rousseau's fantastic scenes heralded Surrealism and were built up meticulously in layers, using a large number of green shades to capture the lush abundance of the jungle.

"Seascape at Saintes-Maries" by Vincent van Gogh shows the artist's fascination with the variable color of the sea. His composition emphasized the boat's fragility against the stormy water.

This painting captures visually the following quote by Van Gogh: "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

Van Gogh stayed in Saint-Marie, for five days, and he executed three oil paintings and nine drawings. His emotional experience is best embodied in this picture, which is written in paint, by replicating his windy views of the sea.

"Portrait of Doctor Félix Rey" by Vincent van Gogh depicts the trainee doctor at Arles Hospital, where Van Gogh was taken for treatment of his mental illness.

After cutting off part of his left ear in December 1888, Vincent van Gogh was taken to the hospital of Arles and placed in the care of Doctor Felix Rey. Dr. Rey was a 23-year-old intern at the time.

This portrait is distinguished by its bright color, flatness, and the absence of modeling. The decorative background of the wallpaper with orange ornamental curls on green presents the doctor in a non-clinical setting.

Doctor Félix Rey is presented with a full face and a carefully and neatly trimmed beard with an elegantly curved mustache.

He is presented sympathetically in his fashionable blue jacket, orange buttons, a striped tie, and a green vest.

"The Red Vineyard" by Vincent van Gogh depicts workers in a vineyard and it is the only painting van Gogh sold during his lifetime.

Van Gogh uniquely captured the mellowed tones and glistening light of the evening sun reflecting in the river and the autumn fields.

This painting was painted two weeks after Gauguin arrived in Arles and moved in with Van Gogh. Van Gogh was excited by his idea of starting an artists' colony. He was keen to share his studio with Gauguin.

The two artists had met two years previously, and Van Gogh was in awe of Gauguin. The relationship, however, ended in disaster culminating in Van Gogh's self-mutilation.

However, before this incident, the two artists worked on similar projects, and Gauguin influenced Van Gogh's paintings of this time.

The Gauguin's colorful works inspired Van Gogh to use more colors for this painting, which he continued to do in his later works.

Van Gogh brightened his palette, experimented even more with shorter brushstrokes, impasto, and complementary colors.

Van Gogh painted this canvas, while Gauguin was painting scenes with Breton Women, clothed in the traditional costumes.

Van Gogh was particularly delighted with a vineyard, whose colors were turning to autumnal reds and yellows.

Russian Proverbs

Pushkin Museum

Name: Pushkin Museum

City: Moscow

Country: Russia

Type: Fine-Art Museum

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The Pushkin Museum

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"There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Art Gallery of Western Australia is the public Western Australian State art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Center in Perth. The Gallery houses the State's art collection consisting of over 17,000 works of art, including 3,000 Indigenous works.

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Adam by Auguste Rodin

Adam, by Auguste Rodin, represents the Adam named in the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis and in the Quran for the first man created by God. The Bible also uses the name "Adam" in a collective sense as "mankind" and individually as "a human." Rodin's Adam references the work of Michelangelo in art and sculpture. The right arm with the pointing finger is taken from the painted figure of Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The left-arm references the dead Christ of Michelangelo's sculpture of the Pietà. This sculpture suggests the beginning of life and the end of life and can be interpreted as the sum of an individual's experience and emotional life.

This Rodin sculpture had its genesis in 1881 when Rodin received a commission for two large figures of Adam and Eve. Originally he intended the pair of sculptures to be placed on either side of a sculptured bronze portal called The Gates of Hell. This monumental sculpture piece commissioned in 1880 and which became Rodin's life work as he continued to work on and off on this project for 37 years, until his death in 1917. This work of Adam was the first cast in 1910, and bronze casts of it are now in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musee Rodin, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and several other leading museums.

"Down on His Luck" by Frederick McCubbin

"Down on His Luck" by Frederick McCubbin depicts a disheartened swagman or unlucky gold prospector, sitting by a campfire brooding over his luck. McCubbin's iconic paintings of romanticized rural and pioneer life are as famous today as they were with his audiences in the 1900s. According to an 1889 review: "The face tells of hardships, keen and blighting in their influence, but there is a nonchalant and slightly cynical expression, which proclaims the absence of all self-pity ... McCubbin's picture is thoroughly Australian in spirit."

The surrounding bush is painted in subdued tones, also reflecting the somber and contemplative mood. The scene was located near the Box Hill artists' camp outside Melbourne. Note the prominent eucalyptus plant placed prominently in the foreground and painted in bold detail, reflecting McCubbin's love of the Australian bush. One can imagine the campfire crackles while birds and cicadas call from the trees.

"Breaking the News" by John Longstaff

"Breaking the News" by John Longstaff depicts the scene inside a miner's cottage with an old miner breaking the unbearable news to a young woman of her husband's death in a mining accident. The woman holds an infant in her arms, and two other miners are at the doorway, carrying the body of the husband on a stretcher.

"Breaking the News" became etched in the popular imagination, and by the 1890s was "known by reproduction in every mining township in Australia." Painted when Longstaff was still an art student, it won him a traveling scholarship in 1887. At the time, it was described as "a vivid and accurate presentment of a familiar incident in Australian life." According to a biographer, Longstaff's childhood memory of a mining fatality was the direct inspiration for "Breaking the News": "following the tragic cortège from mine-head to the cottage door, he had heard the stricken cry of the young wife at the sight of the stretcher-bearers' burden."

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Name: Art Gallery of Western Australia

Established: 1895

Type: Art gallery

Location: Perth Cultural Center, Perth, Western Australia

City: Perth

Australian Proverbs and Quotes

"‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
- Voltaire

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National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place East, Parkes ACT, Australia

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The National Gallery of Australia (formerly the Australian National Gallery) is the national art museum of Australia. Its collection includes more than 166,000 works of art.

The National Gallery of Australia (formerly the Australian National Gallery) is the national art museum of Australia. The collection of the National Gallery of Australia includes:

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art

Australian Art in the European Tradition

Western art

South and East Asia art

Modern Art

Pacific Arts

Photography

Crafts

Sculpture Garden

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"The Green Parasol" by E. Phillips Fox delightfully captures the color differences in light and shade. Fox was an Australian Impressionist painter who had a considerable influence as a teacher on Australian art during the late 1800s.

When compared with other leading Australian artists of the time, Fox shows more interest in exploring the "effects of dappled light."

Rather than to the "sunny vistas," one finds in the other Heidelberg School painters. He is described as an artist who "paid homage to Impressionism while retaining the tonal values of academic realism."

"Landscape, Antibes (The Bay of Nice)" by John Peter Russell was painted in 1891 on the coast of France. John Peter Russell (1858 - 1930) was an Australian Impressionist painter.

Born and raised in Sydney, Russell moved to Europe in his late teenage years to attend art school. Russell befriended fellow pupil Vincent Van Gogh and painted the first portrait of the future world-famous artist, now held at the Van Gogh Museum.

"Bridge and Wattle at Warrandyte" by Penleigh Boyd depicts bushland outside Melbourne, known for its wattle groves, and it is a quintessential Australian painting in landscape and palette.

Wattle became a national floral symbol when it became part of Australia's coat of arms in 1912.

Penleigh Boyd is a landscape artist with expert handling of transient effects of light. He was influenced by E. Phillips Fox, who introduced him to Plein air techniques when they were neighbors in Paris in 1912-3.

His obituary at age 33 compared him to Arthur Streeton and praised him as one of the most promising painters of his generation.

"Child in The Bush" by Frederick McCubbin is a painting that revisited a central theme in McCubbin's work which focused on narratives of vulnerable children stranded in the Australian Bush.

This painting depicts a girl wandering through the bush carrying a basket, collecting wildflowers, or berries. Her white dress stands out in her surroundings.

The landscape in this painting was close to McCubbin's residence at Mount Macedon in Victoria, Australia, and the child in the image was the artist's youngest daughter.

"Miss Minna Simpson" by Tom Roberts depicts the five-year-old niece of Tom Roberts's future wife. The rosy-cheeked face looks directly at the viewer as she firmly holds her cat.

There is a confident contrast between the child's relaxed face and the cat's scowling face and paws reaching for the bowl of milk.

Roberts' tonal palette with the dark background sets off the white apron, bonnet, and lace pays homage to the much-admired international artists such as Manet, Whistler, and Velásquez.

"From McMahon's Point - fare one penny" by Arthur Streeton was painting his 1890 visit to Sydney. While staying with his sister in Summer Hill, Streeton painted views from Coogee and the Harbour.

Streeton wrote to Tom Roberts about this painting at McMahon's Point: "have a most delightful subject there looking towards Milson's Pt with an expanse of water, tops of houses, and landing stage & station, in the foreground of the picture."

"The Spirit of the Drought" by Arthur Streeton depicts a common theme in the work of the artist associated with the Symbolist movement of the 1880s and 1890s.

Symbolist art drew inspiration from dreams, fantasies, poems, and ideas, rather than reality. " Hot Wind" by Charles Conder is similar in its symbolism.

"Hot Wind" by Charles Conder is a nineteenth-century symbolist painting depicting a femme fatale blowing smoke from burning brazier towards the distant town.

In the late 19th century, the symbolism was used in depictions of the Australian Colonial landscape. Charles Conder painted this example during the Victorian drought in 1889.

This allegorical painting evokes the intense, bright light and searing heat of harsh Australian droughts.

"Purrumbete from across the Lake" by Eugene von Guerard was one of his earliest Australian homestead paintings. This painting from 1858, depicts a sheep and cattle station on Lake Purrumbete, in the western part of the state of Victoria.

By the early 1860s, the artist, von Guerard was recognized as the foremost landscape artist in the Australian colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the picturesque.

He is most known for the wilderness paintings, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and meticulous detail.

The scientific accuracy of his landscapes was influenced by the environmental theories of nature painting set by the Düsseldorf Academy, where he was trained.

This Folio of seven watercolors by Richard Browne with the description by Samuel Leigh depicts historical portraits of local Aboriginal people of the early 1800s.

Reverend Samuel Leigh composed the folio of letters in 1821 for his London-based brethren of the Wesleyan Mission Society, and Browne's drawing illustrated the letters.

Richard Browne was an early Australian convict artist and illustrator who was transported from Ireland to the colony of New South Wales in 1811.

After his sentence was completed in 1817, he lived in Sydney, selling watercolor illustrations of natural history subjects and local Aborigines.

Richard Browne's Indigenous peoples' illustrations employed an exaggerated caricature style, which owed much to the silhouette portrait tradition and the stylistic demands of the period.

"Govett's Leap and Grose River Valley, the Blue Mountains" by Eugene von Guerard depicts a sanctuary of bushlands, breathtaking scenery, and natural wildlife.

The Blue Mountains quickly became a tourist destination as word of its natural beauty spread with the help of paintings such as this one. Eugene von Guerard painted this painting nearly fourteen years after he visited this scene.

He developed this composition using sketches, drawings, and possibly photographs as visual aids & reminders.

"Pastorale" was painted by Rupert Bunny, who was a magnificent colorist and erudite painter of classic themes. Bunny could masterfully handle large-scale compositions.

This painting incorporates aspects of symbolism and allegorical subjects. This painting is oddly named as it depicts the realms of land and sea, each with its inhabitants.

Mermaids and mermen in the sea and the fauns on the land. The nymph and young man are slender, pale, and discreetly clothed.

The young man is seated on the sea bank with legs dangling as he plays his pipe, while the nymph next to him, listens with her head on his shoulder.

The sea nymphs are enjoying the music on the shore, and the fauns cup their hands around their ears to hear better.

"Meules, milieu du jour" by Claude Monet is the original French title, which means 'Stacks middle of the Day" and is part of a series of piles of harvested wheat.

The series consists of twenty-five canvas, which Monet began near the end of the summer of 1890, and though Monet also produced earlier paintings using this same stack subject.

The impressionist series is famous for how Monet repeated the same theme to show the different light and atmosphere at different times of day, across the seasons, and in many types of weather.

Monet's Haystacks series is one of his earliest to rely on repetition of a subject to illustrate a subtle difference in color perception across variations of times of day, seasons, and weather.

National Gallery of Australia

Name: National Gallery of Australia

Former name: Australian National Gallery

Established: 1967

Location: Parkes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Type: Art museum

City: Canberra

Country: Australia

National Gallery of Australia Map

Versailles exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Australia

Australian Proverbs and Quotes

Matisse & Picasso tour with National Gallery

The Amazing National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Australia

"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour."
- Australian Proverb

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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, Sydney NSW, Australia

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The Art Gallery of New South Wales, located in the center of Sydney, is one of the largest and oldest in Australia. The Gallery first opened in 1874.

Today admission is free to the general exhibition space, which displays Australian art, European, and Asian art.

Virtual Tour of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Highlights Tour of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

"The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon" by Edward Poynter depicts the story from the Hebrew Bible in which the Queen of Sheba visits Solomon, the King of Israel, and a son of King David.

The Bible describes how the fame of Solomon's wisdom and wealth had spread so far and wide, that the Queen of Sheba decided to visit and see for herself if the stories were real.

The queen came bearing gifts, including gold, spices, and precious stones, and King Solomon responded in kind and gave her "all her desire, whatsoever she asked," and she left satisfied (1 Kings 10:10).

Nearly 3,000 years later, the visit of the Queen of Sheba continues to inspire the creative imagination and has become the subject of many stories that have inspired many artists.

"Vive L'Empereur" by Edouard Detaille depicts the cavalry charge of the 4th Hussars during the "Battle of Friedland."

Historians regard the Battle of Friedland as one of the most brilliant victories of Napoleon during the heyday of the French Empire.

In the "Battle of Friedland," which took place in 1807, the French army under the command of Napoleon won decisively against a Russian army.

The battle took place in the territory of Friedland, which was part of East Prussia and now part of modern-day Russia. The battle took place 84 years before this painting was created.

"Bailed Up" by Tom Roberts depicts a distinctive Australian subject of a stagecoach being held up by bushrangers in a forested section of an isolated road.

Tom Roberts painted this work in 1895 while staying at a sheep station near a small town called Inverell in northern New South Wales, Australia.

It was at this sheep station that he also painted "The Golden Fleece," a famous painting depicting sheep shearing.

"Cymon and Iphigenia" by Frederic Leighton depicts a mythological story about "Cymon" which means "the brute," who one day while walking in the woods, discovered a young woman, "Iphigenia," fast asleep in a meadow under a tree, and her beauty awoke his soul.

This parable of grace soothing the savage beast inverts the myth of "Sleeping Beauty," in which a man awakens a young woman to adulthood. In this mythological story, the woman inspires the male, brute.

"Summer Time" was painted by Rupert Bunny, who was a magnificent colorist and erudite painter of classic themes and could masterfully handle large-scale composition.

This painting epitomizes a spirit of leisure and sensuality, depicting seven voluptuous women lounging inside a bathhouse.

Bunny modeled each of the figures on his wife Jeanne Morel, who sat for many paintings during this period. Jeanne is a French variation of Jean, and the meaning of the name is "God is gracious."

"Summer Time" was painted by Rupert Bunny, who was a magnificent colorist and erudite painter of classic themes and could masterfully handle large-scale composition.

This painting epitomizes a spirit of leisure and sensuality, depicting seven voluptuous women lounging inside a bathhouse.

Bunny modeled each of the figures on his wife Jeanne Morel, who sat for many paintings during this period. Jeanne is a French variation of Jean, and the meaning of the name is "God is gracious."

"Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant" by Benjamin West depicts a key event in Israel's history.

Just as crossing the Red Sea transformed the peoples of Israel from slavery to freedom, crossing the River Jordan into the Promised Land, transformed Israel into a nation.

After wandering in the desert 40 years, the Israelites finally approached the boundary of the Promised Land.

When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the Jordan river, the Ark was carried in front of the people and was the signal for their advance.

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Museums: Art Gallery of New South Wales

City: Sydney

Country: Australia

Established: 1874

Location: The Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Type: Fine arts, visual arts, Asian Art Museum

Location: The Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Address: Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Collections:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art

Asian art

Australian art

Contemporary art

Pacific art

Photography

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- Anon

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Vancouver Art Gallery, Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) has a permanent collection of about 11,000 artworks. The gallery's European collection includes historical Dutch paintings from the seventeenth century.

The museums' collection grows every year with works produced in Western Canada, as well as related works by other Canadian and international artists.

Highlights of the Vancouver Art Gallery

Landscape with Stream and Windmill by Roelof de Vries

The Captive from Sterne by Joseph Wright of Derby

Dream of Belinda by Henry Fuseli

In the Hayfield by David Cox

Path among Pines by Emily Carr

Above the Gravel Pitt by Emily Carr

Vancouver Art Gallery

Name: Vancouver Art Gallery

Established: 1931

Type: Art gallery

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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"Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet."
- Canadian Proverb

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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada

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The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is the city's largest museum and is amongst the most prominent in Canada.

The MMFA is spread across five pavilions and the full extent of the campus makes it amongst the largest art museums in North America. The permanent collection included approximately 44,000 works.

Highlights of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

"October" by James Tissot

"Temptation of Saint Hilarion" by Octave Tassaert

"Canadian Fall" by Otto Reinhold Jacobi

"Bonaparte Entering Cairo" by Jean-Leon Gerome

Maitreya bodhisattva, Gandhara, Kushan period, 3rd century

Mask, Japan, Edo period

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Name: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)

French: Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (MBAM)

Established: 1860

Type: Art museum

Location: 1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

"Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet."
- Canadian Proverb

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Cleveland Museum of Art, East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH, USA

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The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum, internationally renowned for its holdings of Asian and Egyptian art, the museum's collection has a diverse permanent collection of more than 45,000 works of art from around the world.

The Cleveland Museum of Art, in addition to its permanent collection, provides special exhibitions, lectures, films, and musical programs.

The department of performing arts, music, and film hosts a film series and the museum's Performing Arts events.

A Virtual Tour of the Cleveland Museum of Art

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"The Burning of the Houses of Parliament" by J. M. W. Turner depicts the fire that broke out at the Houses of Parliament in 1834. Turner himself witnessed the Burning of Parliament from the south bank of the River Thames, opposite Westminster.

The painting shows the Houses of Parliament overwhelmed in golden flames, which are consuming the chamber of the House of Commons.

This depiction is the view from downstream, close to Waterloo Bridge, and shows the fire and smoke blowing dramatically over the Thames as the London spectators look on from the river bank and boats.

This 5,000-year-old marble sculpture of a female figure is called the "Stargazer." The name derives from the way her eyes are looking up to the stars above.

Created in translucent marble, this is an unusual sculpture because her head is sculptured entirely in the round. Her body is reduced to a simple yet elegant profile.

The nose is depicted as a slight ridge on a straight-line edge. The head tilted backward; the eyes are tiny dots raised in relief.

Apollo the Python-Slayer is attributed to the master sculptor Praxiteles (Greek, 400 - 330 BC) and is a rare historical object as it is the only known life-size bronze version of the Apollo the Python-Slayer.

Praxiteles's creation represents Apollo's victory over the Python, representing a triumph of order (kosmos) over disorder (chaos).

"The Emperor as Philosopher" is a bronze statue which is probably of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

He was Emperor of Rome from 161 to 180 AD and was a practitioner of Stoicism. His writings, known as "Meditations," are a significant source of our understanding of the ancient Stoic philosophy and is one of the notable works of philosophy.

"The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin was initially conceived for his monumental bronze portal entitled "The Gates of Hell" (1880-1917).

The figure was intended to represent Italian poet Dante pondering "The Divine Comedy," his epic classic of Paradise and Inferno.

Initially, this masterpiece had several other names, including "The Poet." In 1889, Rodin exhibited the sculpture independently of The Gates, giving it the title "The Thinker," and in 1902, he embarked on this larger version.

It has since become one of his most recognized masterpieces.

Gudea was the political and religious governor of Lagash, one of the oldest Sumerian cities in Ancient Mesopotamia. Gudea ruled between 2144 - 2124 BC, and about twenty-seven statues of Gudea have been found.

These 4,000-year-old statues show a very advanced level of craftsmanship for the time.

Also, more than 2,400 inscriptions have been found that mention his name and describe his 20-year campaign of city improvements, which included new temples and irrigation canals. He was also a patron of the arts.

Many statues of Gudea, both seated and standing, can be found in museums across the world.

"Notre Dame Seen from the Quai de la Tournelle" by Jean-François Raffaëlli depicts the eastern façade of Notre-Dame from across the Seine.

Raffaëlli shows the flying buttresses of the apse of Notre-Dame, the spire of the cathedral, and the towers on the west facade. Notre Dame was a popular and immediately recognizable subject for artists to paint.

Tissot left Paris after the Franco-Prussian War and resided in London from 1871.

He knew James McNeill Whistler and Edgar Degas, but turned away from Impressionism and focused mainly on portraits and genre paintings of the Victorian upper classes in a more polished academic style.

These pictures are typical of Tissot's work, depicting his subjects with almost photographic realism. He composed ambiguous narratives that hinted at risqué behavior among the wealthy classes and the boundaries of propriety.

"The Call" by Paul Gauguin is part of a series of the artist's late works that explore the mysteries of life and death. Two women stand bare feet, with one of the women gesturing to someone outside the picture.

Gauguin, at this late stage in his life, was painting from memory and imagination to achieve mysterious, dreamlike images. Paul Gauguin was preparing himself to respond to his "call" from destiny.

"Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo" by Henri Rousseau is a highly stylized and unique depiction of simplified images of animals and nature painted in flat, bright colors.

ousseau's imaginative visions and the technique of painting was unique. He applied one layer at a time, creating multiple layers, and he carefully blended his brushstrokes to create a smooth surface.

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"Cupid and Psyche" by Jacques-Louis David depicts the challenge of between idealized love and physical reality. Cupid is the lover of the mortal Psyche, and he visited her nightly on the condition that she does not know his identity.

Cupid was usually depicted as an ideal adolescent, but in this painting, David presents him as an ungainly teenager smirking at his sexual conquest.

David's inspiration for the depiction of Cupid included a recently published Greek poem that described Cupid as a trickster with flashing eyes and curly hair.

"Stag at Sharkey's" by George Bellows depicts two boxers fighting at Sharkey's Athletic Club situated across from his studio in 1909.

Participants in the boxing ring were usually members of the club, but occasionally outsiders would fight with temporary memberships. These fighters were known as "stags."

The Club was founded by Tom "Sailor" Sharkey, an ex-fighter who had also served in the US Navy. Public boxing was illegal in New York at the time, so only private events could be arranged for a boxing bout to take place.

Participation was usually limited to members of a particular club, but whenever an outsider competed, he was given temporary membership.

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The National Gallery of Art and its attached Sculpture Garden is the national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall.

The museum was originally privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction.

The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present.

The Gallery's campus includes the original neoclassical West Building, which is linked underground to the modern East Building and the 6.1-acre (25,000 m2) Sculpture Garden.

The Gallery often presents temporary special exhibitions spanning the world and the history of art. It is one of the largest museums in North America and is open to the public and free of charge.

The National Gallery of Art, DC, includes among its many treasures the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.

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Ginevra de' Benci by Leonardo da Vinci depicts a well-known young Florentine aristocrat. Leonardo painted the portrait in Florence in 1474 to commemorate Ginevra's marriage at the age of 16.

The juniper bush that fills much of the background was regarded as a symbol of female virtue, in Renaissance Italy, while the Italian word for juniper, echo's Ginevra's name.

Ginevra is shown beautiful but reserved with no hint of a smile. Her gaze, although forward, seems indifferent to the viewer.

"A Young Girl Reading" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicts a girl in profile wearing a lemon yellow dress with a white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons.

The girl is reading from a small book held, and a cushion resting against a wall supports her back. Her face and dress are lit from the front.

Fragonard used fine brushwork on the face and looser brushwork on the dress and cushion and the ruff, which was scratched into the paint with the end of a brush.

The "Small Cowper Madonna" is a painting by Raphael, depicting Mary and Child in a 1500's Italian countryside. It was painted around 1505 during the middle of the High Renaissance.

The composition is centered on the seated Madonna in a bright red dress; she is shown with fair skin and blonde hair.

She is sitting comfortably on a wooden bench, and across her lap is a dark blue drapery upon which her right hand delicately rests. There is also a sheer translucent ribbon elegantly flowing across the top of her dress and behind her head.

The faintest golden halo miraculously surrounds her head. In her left hand, she holds the baby Christ, who embraces her with one arm around her back, the other around her neck. He also has blonde hair and is looking back over his shoulder with a coy smile.

"The Alba Madonna" by Raphael depicts three figures all looking at the cross; they represent the Madonna with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist as a child.

The figures are grouped to the left in the round composition. The outstretched arm of the Madonna and the resting elbow on the stump with her enveloping cloak balance the group image.

"Nude on a Divan" by Amedeo Modigliani is one of the dozens of nudes created by Modigliani in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures that echo precursors such as Titian, Goya, and Velázquez.

However, Modigliani's figures differ significantly in the level of raw sensuality they transmit.

Unlike depictions of female nudes from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, in which female nudity is couched in mythology or allegory, this series of paintings are without any such context, highlighting the painting's eroticism.

"Nude on a Divan" by Amedeo Modigliani is one of the dozens of nudes created by Modigliani in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures that echo precursors such as Titian, Goya, and Velázquez.

However, Modigliani's figures differ significantly in the level of raw sensuality they transmit.

Unlike depictions of female nudes from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, in which female nudity is couched in mythology or allegory, this series of paintings are without any such context, highlighting the painting's eroticism.

"Saint Jerome" by El Greco shows him as an ascetic with gaunt, sunken features and a white hair and beard, which are symbolic of his history as a penitent and his retreat to the Syrian desert.

The cave-like setting recalls St Jerome's years as a hermit in the desert. The book symbolizes his scholarly activity. During the Renaissance, paintings showed Saint Jerome either in his study or performing acts of penance in the wilderness.

These pictures adorned the walls of the homes of many humanists and scholars.

"The Houses of Parliament" by Claude Monet is one in a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, created during the early 1900s while Monet stayed in London.

All of the series of paintings with similar titles share the same viewpoint from Monet's terrace at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames.

The set of pictures depict different times of the day, and various weather and light conditions, interestingly all on canvases are of approximately similar size.

"Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)" by Winslow Homer is an iconic painting of a father and three boys out for a spirited sail.

Homer had a sensibility that allowed him to distill art from potentially sentimental subjects and to yield straightforward views of American life of the period.

Homer painted warm and appealing images that appealed to the postwar nostalgia for a simpler, more innocent America.

Following a trip to Europe in 1866-1867, Homer adopted a warmer palette and a technique, which owed much to the influence of French artists such as Courbet, Manet, and Monet.

"Madame Moitessier" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is a portrait of Marie-Clotilde-Inès Moitessier (née de Foucauld) completed in 1851 which depicts the subject standing in a black dress looking directly at the viewer.

Madame Moitessier (1821-1897) was the daughter of a French civil servant who married a wealthy banker and merchant, who was a widower twice her age.

Adrienne (Woman with Bangs) by Amedeo Modigliani is similar to Modigliani's other iconic and stylized portraits.

Adrienne is depicted with a simplified, elongated oval face, gracefully sculptured nose, and simplified mouth highlight the Modigliani's interest in African masks.

Modigliani used portraiture to explore both his psychology and that of his subjects, who were typically fellow artists, friends, or lovers.

Modigliani drew inspiration from the art of so-called "primitive" cultures, his work often resembling African or Pre-Columbian sculpture.

Adrienne's neck is elongated as in may other Modigliani portraits again echoing his appreciation of "primitive" sculptures.

"Watson and the Shark" by John Singleton Copley depicts the rescue of the boy from a shark attack in Havana harbor, Cuba. This painting is based on the true story of an attack that took place in 1749.

The English boy Brook Watson, then a 14-year-old cabin boy, lost his leg in the attack. He was not rescued until the third attempt by the shark, which is the subject of the painting.

The shark attack on Watson resulted in the loss of his right leg below the knee. However, he went on to have a distinguished career, including becoming a Lord Mayor of London.

"The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries" by Jacques-Louis David shows Napoleon standing. This portrait is a three-quarters life-size, wearing the uniform of a colonel of the Imperial Guard Foot Grenadiers with his military decorations.

Napoleon is looking at the viewer and poses with his right hand is in his jacket. His face is reminiscent of Churchill's early portraits of determination.

On the desk are a pen, several books, dossiers, and rolled-up papers. More rolled documents and a map are on the green carpet to the left of the desk.

Napoleon is shown with unbuttoned cuffs, wrinkled stockings, disheveled hair. The flickering candles are nearly spent, and the time on the clock is 4.13 am.

These symbols are all meant to imply he has been up all night, writing laws such as the Code Napoléon. The word "Code" is prominent on the rolled papers on the desk.

"The Boating Party" by Mary Cassatt depicts a woman, baby, and man in a sailboat. It is one of her largest oil paintings and is an unusual painting compared to Cassatt's other artworks.

While it does show her familiar theme of a mother and child, most of her other pictures are set in domestic interiors or gardens.

In this painting, Cassatt expertly contrasts the dark figure of the oarsman with colorfully dressed figures of mother and child. In 1890 Cassatt visited the great Japanese Print exhibition in Paris, and she started collecting Japanese prints, which had a significant influence on her.

In this picture, Cassatt placed the horizon at the very top of the frame in the Japanese fashion.

"Interior of the Pantheon, Rome" by Giovanni Paolo Panini depicts the interior of the famous and best-preserved of all Ancient Roman buildings, the Pantheon.

The Pantheon has been a prominent tourist attraction in Rome for hundreds of years. Built by Hadrian in 113-125 AD, this grand domed temple has survived structurally intact because it was consecration as a Christian church, "St. Mary and the Martyrs", in 609 AD.

Panini populated the scene with foreign visitors. He featured a diverse mix of Romans and visitors from all parts of society. They congregate in the Pantheon to pray and to admire the fantastic architecture.

Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec depicts the artist's favorite subject from the theater, Marcelle Lender, the red-headed actress.

Toulouse-Lautrec first encountered her when he began to attend the theater regularly, in 1893. His infatuation with her peak when she starred in the revival of Hervé's "Chilpéric."

Toulouse-Lautrec visited this operetta over twenty times, arriving just in time to see Lender dance the bolero in the second act. This painting shows Lender performing a bolero from the operetta.

"At the Moulin Rouge" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is one of several works by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting the Moulin Rouge cabaret built in Paris in 1889.

This painting portrays a group of three men and two women sitting around a table situated on the floor of the nightclub. In the background of this group is a self-portrait of Toulouse-Lautrec himself, who can be identified as the shorter stunted figure next to his taller companion.

"A Dutch Courtyard" by Pieter de Hooch depicts two men seated at a table in the courtyard and a standing woman. The soldier who is wearing a breastplate is setting down the pitcher he has used to fill the glass, now held by the woman.

The "pass-glass" the woman is drinking from was used in drinking games. Each participant had to drink down to the next line on the glass.

If the drinker failed to reach the line level, the reveler would be required to drink down to the next ring. Only when the drinker had drunk successfully to the required line would the glass be passed on to the next participant.

The little girl carries a brazier of hot coals so that the two soldiers can light their long-stemmed, white clay pipes.

"The Mother and Sister of the Artist" by Berthe Morisot depicts a family portrait and an intimate scene, which the artist created when Morisot's sister stayed with her family in the winter of 1869-1870 to await the birth of her first child.

The loose white morning robe discreetly disguises the pregnancy.

New York by George Bellows is a large painting that captures the essence of modern life in New York City in 1911.

The view looks uptown toward Madison Square from the intersection of Broadway and 23rd Street, but Bellows drew on several commercial districts to create an imaginary composite.

His focus was to show the crowds and traffic to convey a sense of the city's hectic pace. Bellows assembled all of these diverse elements of New York into one scene.

Self-Portrait by John Singleton Copley depicts the artist ten years after his departure from Boston. In London, he achieved success as a portraitist for the next two decades.

He also painted several large history paintings, which were innovative in their depiction of modern subjects and modern dress. His later years were less successful, and he died heavily in debt.

Self-Portrait" by Benjamin West depicts the artists with the light strongest on his face and hands, and the rest of the picture falls into shadow. West began his career as a portrait painter in Philadelphia and New York.

Patrons granted him a scholarship visit Rome, the first American artist to be given this opportunity. An earlier version of this portrait is exhibited in the Baltimore Museum of Art, which was created in 1770. This version is from 1776 and is more dramatic in its contrasts.

"Symphony in White, No. 1" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler shows a woman in full figure standing on a wolf skin in front of a white curtain with a white lily in her hand.

The woman is dressed all in white, which is the color scheme of the painting. The painting was initially called "The White Girl," but later, Whistler called it "Symphony in White, No. 1."

Art critics have interpreted the painting as an allegory of innocence and its loss. This painting was an early experiment in white on white.

This color scheme was a subject he would return to later, in two other paintings that would be given the titles of Symphony in White, No. 2 (1864) and Symphony in White, No. 3 (1865-67).

"Skiffs on the Yerres" by Gustave Caillebotte depicts three one-person skiffs being paddled along a river with its banks densely wooded.

The skiff in the foreground dominates the painting. It is an open canoe designed to accommodate a single occupant. All the rowers appear to be wearing a straw-colored cloche hat.

The rowers are using a double-ended paddle with a heart-shaped blade at each end. The bows of the skiff produce patterned ripples in the water, in which the bright color of the paddle and man's bright colors are seen in the reflection.

"The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna" by Raphael, also known as the Large Cowper Madonna, depicts Mary and Child, against a blue sky. The painting was the last of Raphael's Florentine paintings before he left for Rome.

An inscription on the border of Madonna's bodice, "MDVIII.R.V.PIN," indicates that it was painted in 1508 by Raphael of Urbino. It is more complicated than a similar painting the Small Cowper Madonna of a few years earlier, though their intimacy closely relates both pictures.

"The Equatorial Jungle" by Henri Rousseau was ridiculed during much of his life as a naïve painting. Rousseau's technique included the use of controlled brush strokes, which made each object in the picture appear outlined.

Eventually, with the endorsement of Picasso, Matisse, and other artists, Rousseau gained the recognition he craved. Today he is known a self-taught genius famous for his imaginary jungle scenes.

Waterloo Bridge by Claude Monet is one in a series of paintings of the famous bridge in London. All of the pictures in the "Waterloo Bridge" series share the same viewpoint overlooking the Thames.

The paintings depict different times of the day and very different weather and light conditions. From 1899 through 1901, Monet set up his paints in the Savoy hotel and on the river's north bank and painted the bridge over 40 times.

He depicted the "Waterloo Bridge" more than either the "Houses of Parliament" or the "Charing Cross Bridge," from his two other London series.

"Christ at the Sea of Galilee" by Lambert Sustris or a member of the Circle of Tintoretto, depicts Jesus Christ as he raises a hand toward the apostles, who are in a boat on massive waves and beneath stormy skies.

Christ is depicted backlit by the rising sun on the shore of Lake Galilee as he appears to the seven men in a boat. This painting tells the story in the Gospels of John when the apostles had been fishing all night without success.

Christ told them to cast their nets to the right side of the boat, where the catch would be plentiful. When Peter saw Christ, he jumped into the water to swim to shore.

As the sunrise begins to brighten the waves and sky, Peter extends his leg from the boat. Many of the events in the life of Jesus Christ took place in the region of Galilee and areas surrounding the Sea of Galilee. In the Gospels, Jesus walks on the surface of the Sea of Galilee and feeds the thousands near the Sea of Galilee.

"Both Members of This Club" by George Bellows is the third and largest of George Bellows's early prize-fighting subjects. The painting's title is a reference to the practice in private athletic clubs of introducing the contestants to the audience as "both members" to circumvent the law.

The Lewis Law made prize-fighting illegal in New York State. Boxing continued in New York on a club membership basis until 1911.

Boxing was a controversial subject, but the interracial theme made this painting even more so, especially since the black boxer appears to be winning the match.

This painting follows the success of the African American professional prizefighter Jack Johnson, who had won the world heavyweight championship in 1908. The idea of a black boxing champion was unsettling to then social order.

"Club Night" by George Bellows was the first of three similar boxing subjects that Bellows painted Between 1907 to 1909.

This painting represents a fight at an athletic club in New York City where attendees paid club membership fees instead of admission fees to a specific fight, allowing them to gamble on matches legally.

The public's response to boxing varied; some regarded boxing as savage and brutal, but many thought it a natural manifestation of masculinity.

"Farmhouse in Provence" by Vincent van Gogh depicts the entrance gate to a farm with haystacks beyond the gate and with the farmhouse in the background.

When Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888, the landscape was covered with snow, but it was the sun that he enjoyed in Provence. And this painting captures the brilliant light that he sought.

Van Gogh simplified the forms and reduced the scene to the flat patterns he admired in Japanese woodblock prints. Arles, he said, was: "the Japan of the South."

Van Gogh used pairs of complementary or contrasting, colors which together intensified the brilliance and intensity of one another's colors.

"Girl in White" by Vincent van Gogh depicts a young woman wearing a large yellow hat with a knot of sky-blue ribbons standing against a background of a green wheat field.

Vincent van Gogh created this painting in 1890 in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, during the last months of his life.

Van Gogh has used the picture's elongated plane to dramatic effect by having the woman fill most of the pictorial space, making her appear closer to the viewer.

Van Gogh shadowed her face and gave her a distant gaze, which endows her with a touching emotional distance.

"Street in Venice" by John Singer Sargent is an oil on wood painting that depicts a young woman walking along the flagstones, kicking her skirt with her feet. She is being observed by two darkly colored men in the shadows to her right.

Her down-turned eyes, her crossed hands, and steady pace as she passes the two men, show the woman's concern with the male glare as she deliberately avoids their attention. Her shawl and skirt are shown flowing in motion, suggesting that she is moving quickly past them.

Sargent painted this work in a post-impressionist manner. It is set in a backstreet off the Calle Larga dei Proverbi, near the Grand Canal in Venice.

"Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son" by Claude Monet depicts the artist's wife Camille Monet and their son Jean Monet during 1875 while they were living in Argenteuil.

Monet's brushwork creates splashes of color to capture a moment during a stroll on a windy summer's day. Madame Monet and her son are viewed from below the horizon line, with an upward perspective, against the white clouds in an azure sky.

Sunlight shines from behind Camille to whiten the top of her parasol and the flowing cloth at her back, while brightly colored wildflowers surround her front with yellow.

Camille Monet's veil is blown by the wind, as is her swirling white dress. The waving grass of the meadow is both in the light and the woman's shadow, which is echoed by the shaded green underside of her parasol.

Monets' seven-year-old son is placed further away, partially concealed behind a rise in the ground and visible only from the waist up, creating a sense of depth.

"A Lady Writing a Letter" by Johannes Vermeer depicts a lady writing a letter while sitting at a table in a room. She appears to have been interrupted, as she looks up towards the viewer, while she continues to hold the quill in her right hand.

The lady is dressed in an elegant lemon-yellow morning jacket and wears pearl earrings. A necklace lies on the table.

Vermeer's compositional focus is on the woman and her face. The smaller objects on the table stand in contrast with the large forms used in the rest of the composition, which create a geometric framework for the figure.

The table is brought close to the picture plane to emphasizes the directness of her gaze. Johannes Vermeer preserves the integrity of the picture plane to create a vivid illusion of three-dimensional space.

On the back of the wall is a dark painting that covers much of the background and contrast with the lady's brighter colors.

"Tale of Creation," also known as "Genesis II" by Franz Marc, is a colored print from woodcut, illustrating the creation story in the Book of Genesis. Pure and uncorrupted life emerges from a chaotic and dynamic swirl of interlocking forms.

Color for Marc came to embody emotional and spiritual states. Animals were frequent subjects in his paintings, as Marc considered them more spiritual and closer to nature than humans.

Marc, in this woodcut print, was influenced by his studies of early printed Bibles and their woodcut illustrations.

Marc was planned to include this print in an illustrated Bible he was organizing for the Blaue Reiter, the Munich-based artist group he cofounded.

However, by 1914 at the beginning of World War I, when Franz Marc created Schöpfungsgeschichte II (Genesis II), he had lost his faith that the natural world could provide an antidote to what he viewed as a sick society.

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Founded in 1884 to display the collections of the Portuguese Royal Family and the National Academy of Fine Arts, is housed in the former residence of the 1st Marquis of Pombal which was expanded when it was converted into a museum. The museum's collection spans more than a millennium of art from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

The museums' notable masterpieces represent artists such as Hieronymus Bosch, Hans Holbein the Elder, Francisco de Zurbarán, Albrecht Dürer, Domingos Sequeira, and Giambattista Tiepolo, among others.

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Nationalmuseum or the National Museum of Fine Arts is the national gallery of Sweden, located in central Stockholm. The museum was founded in 1792 as the "Royal Museum". The present building was opened in 1866 when it was renamed the Nationalmuseum.

The museum collection consists of about half a million drawings from the Middle Ages to 1900, a 17th-century collection of Rembrandt and other Dutch painters, and a collection of porcelain items, paintings, sculptures, and modern art as well. The museum also has an art library, open to the public and academics.

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National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm

Museum: Nationalmuseum

City: Stockholm

Established: 1792

Type: National Gallery

Address: Södra Blasieholmshamnen 2, Stockholm, Sweden

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"Those who wish to sing always find a song."
- Swedish Proverb

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Nationalmuseum - National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm Nationalmuseum or the National Museum of Fine Arts is the national gallery of Sweden, located in central Stockholm. The museum was founded in 1792 as the "Royal Museum". The present building was opened in 1866 when it was renamed the Nationalmuseum.

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The Manchester Art Gallery houses many works of local and international significance and has a collection of more than 25,000 objects.

The gallery has an excellent art collection consisting of more than 2,000 oil paintings, 3,000 watercolors and drawings, 250 sculptures, 90 miniatures, and around 1,000 prints.

It owns many decorative art objects, including ceramics, glass, furniture, metalwork, arms, and armor.

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"Hylas and the Nymphs" by John William Waterhouse portrays the abduction of Hylas by water nymphs. Hylas, according to classical mythology, was as a youth who served as Heracles' companion and servant.

Hylas was kidnapped by nymphs of the spring, who had fallen in love with him, and he vanished without a trace. According to one ancient author, Heracles never found Hylas because he had fallen in love with the nymphs and remained "to share their power and their love."

According to legend, the loss of Hylas extremely upset Heracles, and he searched for a long time for his companion. Heracles had recruited Hylas as his arms bearer and had taught him to be a warrior: "He taught him all the things which had made him a mighty man, and famous."

"The Death of King Arthur" by James Archer depicts the death of the legendary King Arthur. Arthur is shown laid out; his wounded body and clothes reveal his battle scars.

He wears a suit of chainmail under a tunic, bearing the emblem of a dragon on the chest, and there is a fur blanket covering his legs.

Arthur's head rests on the lap of Queen Guinevere, who is seated on a cushion on the ground as she strokes his brow. Seated at his side is another female figure, also wearing a crown, with an open book upon her lap, as she offers the King a drink from a tiny cup.

Kneeling at his feet is the third female figure who is weeping into her hands. The fourth female figure with a mournful expression is kneeling closeby and resting her head against the trunk of a tree.

"The Funeral of a Viking" by Frank Dicksee depicts the funeral of a Viking leader laid out in a boat that has been ceremonially set ablaze as it is being pushed out to sea with the tide.

The recumbent body of the dead Viking is fully armored and surrounded by flames as he lies on a burning pyre in a Viking Ship.

The Viking boat has a stern carved into the form of the head of a mythical beast. It is being hauled into the rough sea and pushed out to sea by muscular Vikings.

Standing on the shore are a crowd of Viking men and soldiers with arms and weapons raised as the burning ship is pushed out.

The most prominent of these figures is that of an armored man wearing a crested helmet and a breast-plate with raised ornamentation. With his right arm raised, he salutes his leader while holding a flaming torch in his left.

"The Sirens and Ulysses" by William Etty depicts a scene from Homer's Odyssey. It shows Ulysses becoming bewitched by the song of the Sirens.

Ulysses was warned about the Sirens; however, he wanted to hear the song. So he ordered his ship's crew to tie him up and to block their ears to prevent themselves from hearing the song and becoming bewitched.

Etty portrayed the Sirens as naked young women on an island strewn with decaying corpses.

Manchester Art Gallery

Name: Manchester Art Gallery

City: Manchester

Country: England

State: United Kingdom

Established: 1823

Location: Mosley Street, Manchester, England

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"Great events make me quiet and calm;
it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
- Queen Victoria

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Manchester Art Gallery - Virtual Tour The Manchester Art Gallery houses many works of local and international significance and has a collection of more than 25,000 objects. The gallery has an excellent art collection consisting of more than 2,000 oil paintings, 3,000 watercolors and drawings, 250 sculptures, 90 miniatures, and around 1,000 prints.

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Lady Lever Art Gallery, Village, Lower Road, Port Sunlight, Bebington, Wirral, UK

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The Lady Lever Art Gallery houses significant collections in British 19th-century painting and sculpture, extending to include the late 18th-century and early 20th works.

The collections include English furniture, Wedgwood, especially jasperware, and Chinese ceramics, and smaller groups of other types of objects, such as Ancient Greek vases and Roman sculpture.

The museum displays paintings, sculptures, and furniture together, and there are five "Period Rooms" recreating typical period interiors from large houses.

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The Black Brunswicker by John Everett Millais was inspired by the exploits of the Black Brunswickers, a German volunteer corps of the Napoleonic Wars, during the Waterloo campaign.

Millais depicts a Brunswicker about to depart for battle. His sweetheart, wearing a ballgown, restrains him, trying to push the door closed, while he pulls it open.

This scene was imagined to have occurred during a ball, that took place on 15 June 1815, from which the officers departed to join troops at the Battle of Quatre Bras. T

he artist has expertly contrasted the officer's black broadcloth and the lady's pearl-white satin in a moment of tender conflict.

A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford by John Everett Millais depicts an aged medieval knight helping two young peasant children over a river. The peasant children are carrying wood for winter fuel.

The title of the painting refers to the medieval poem Sir Isumbras and his good deeds. When first exhibited, the painting was extremely controversial and was attacked by many critics.

The theme of the Christian Chivalry was a topical one at the time, and Millais was also influenced by Albrecht Dürer's print, The Knight, Death, and the Devil.

Despite its first negative reception, the painting inspired several other images of chivalric knights.

"The Triumph of Cleopatra" by William Etty depicts a scene in which the Queen of Egypt, travels to Tarsus in Cilicia aboard a magnificently decorated ship to cement an alliance with the Roman general Mark Antony.

Etty created a cramped and crowded composition with people in various states of undress, gathering on the bank to greet the ship's arrival.

The Triumph of Cleopatra is based loosely on Plutarch's Life of Antony as repeated in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

The painting was an immediate success, making Etty famous almost overnight. Buoyed by its reception, Etty devoted much of the next decade to create further history paintings containing nude figures.

"A Tale from the Decameron" by John William Waterhouse depicts a scene from Boccaccio's Decameron.

The Decameron contains a collection of 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men who are sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348.

In Italy, during the time of the Black Death, ten young people flee from plague-ridden Florence to a deserted villa in the countryside for two weeks.

To pass the days, each member of the party tells a story, except for one day per week for chores, and the Sunday during which they do no work at all.

"The Daphnephoria" by Frederic Leighton depicts an ancient Greek religious festival held every ninth year at Thebes in Boeotia, Greece in honor of Apollo.

During the festival procession, the people held laurel branches and sung to Apollo. At the head of the procession walked a youth who acted as the chosen priest of Apollo. He was given the special title of the "Daphnephoros."

Leighton's depiction features a procession of young people with a richly dressed "Daphnephoros," wearing a golden crown.

The Daphnephoros leads the procession to the temple of Apollo, where he will dedicate to Apollo two bronze tripods. The tripods are carried on the shoulders of the youth at the far left of the painting.

The youth who was selected as the "Daphnephoros," which in Greek meant the "laurel bearer," had to come from a prominent family, had to be of noble appearance, and his parents had to be healthy.

Lady Lever Art Gallery

Name: Lady Lever Art Gallery

City: Liverpool

Established: 1922

Location: Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom

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"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."
- Queen Victoria

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Visit the patios of the Museum and discover, in an innovative, interactive and highly visual way, the elements that have shaped these spaces over history. Enter and enjoy the patios, in a journey through the history of Barcelona.

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Picasso Museum, Carrer Montcada, Barcelona, Spain

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National Gallery of Victoria, Saint Kilda Road, Melbourne VIC, Australia

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Triennial conversations | Get Real Estate Jill Garner, Amy Muir and Michael Bleby in conversation with Ewan McEoin Triennial conversations | JR / Rivers in Decline Badger Bates, Gabrielle Chan, Rachel Strachan and Alan Whyte in conversation with Ewan McEoin Triennial conversations | Nature as Collaborator Talin Hazbar, Elliot Bastianon,

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Founded in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of art, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. The Guggenheim network that began in the 1970s when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, was joined by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, has since expanded to include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (opened 1997), and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (currently in development). Looking to the future, the Guggenheim Foundation continues to forge international collaborations that take contemporary art, architecture, and design beyond the walls of the museum. The Foundation is also committed to fostering research, exhibitions, and collections in the field of global art through such programs as the Asian Art Initiative (founded in 2006), the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative (founded in 2013), and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative (founded in 2013). More information about the Foundation can be found at guggenheim.org.

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Light Art Space gGmbH, Ohmstraße, München, Deutschland

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Musée d´Orsay, Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, Paris, Frankreich

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Van Gogh Museum, Museumplein, Amsterdam, Niederlande

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The Getty, Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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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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Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Bonngasse, Bonn, Germany

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Das Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig hat eine führende Rolle für immersive Kunstausstellungen in Deutschland eingenommen. Zwei postindustrielle, große Hallen wurden mit mehr als 54 Hightech-Beamern, 30 Lautsprechern und einem Computer-Cluster ausgestattet, um Meisterwerke von Künstlern verschiedener Genres zu zeigen. Mit Hilfe modernster Bild- und Tontechnik werden die Werke der Künstler transformiert, indem ihre Gemälde auf (und über) 10 Meter hohe Wände über die riesige Fläche von 3.600 qm des renovierten Industrie-Gebäudes projiziert werden.

Diesen futuristischen und immersiven Ansatz verwandeln die Installationen zu einem atemberaubenden Erlebnis. Durch diese multisensorische Erfahrung wollen wir auch jene begeistern, die nicht regelmäßig Museen besuchen.

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Ein neuer Kontext der digitalen Kreativität, in dem die Besucher mit neuen Technologien in Kontakt treten können und auf hohem Niveau immersive Welten erleben. Immersive Kunst, interaktive Installationen, Live-Performances, virtuelle und augmented Virtuality, Video-Mapping und Lichtdesign. Die internationale Gruppe von Digitalkünstlern und Fachleuten der Kreativwirtschaft ziehen für drei Tage mit spannenden Veranstaltungen nach Leipzig.

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Louvre Museum, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France

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From afar. Travelling Materials and Objects

Through materials and objects, this exhibition describes exchanges between distant worlds - exchanges often far more ancient than the explorations of the 16th century. From deepest antiquity, carnelian, lapis lazuli, ebony and ivory circulated along trade routes...

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British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, UK

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When we first opened our doors in 1759, we proudly declared ourselves a place for 'all studious and curious persons'. It's a mission we're still dedicated to - even if you can't visit us in person yet. With that in mind, we'd like to share the many ways in which you can explore our galleries and the collection online.

So, here are 11 ways for you to stay curious, keep learning, and experience over two million years of human history - all without stepping out your front door.

1. Virtual Museum tours with Google Street View

Did you know that the Museum is the world's largest indoor space on Google Street View? You can go on a virtual visit to more than 60 galleries - perfect for creating your own bespoke tour around your favourites. See highlights like the Rosetta Stone in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery or discover gems like the beautiful textiles in the Sainsbury African Galleries.

The Rosetta Stone on Google Street View

As well as allowing you to plan your own route through our labyrinthine galleries, Google Street View has the advantage of letting you see the collection when the Museum is blissfully quiet.
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2. Keep exploring with virtual galleries

We also offer virtual galleries on our own website. You can explore our extensive Prints and Drawings collection to see Old Masters such as Dürer and Michelangelo or see new and exciting contemporary pieces. Dive into the incredible Oceania collection and uncover a vast array of objects from Australia, New Guinea and the many islands dotted across the South Pacific Ocean.
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3. Go behind the scenes with the Museum Podcast

If you'd prefer some company on your journey around the Museum, try downloading the British Museum Podcast. You'll join presenters Sushma Jansari and Hugo Chapman as they take you on a journey behind the scenes at the Museum - meeting scientists, curators, authors and artists along the way.

Hugo and Sushma's recent adventures include learning about mysterious 'mummy goo', learning about the perils of poison arrows in the collection and going on a trip to the Museum's own X-ray lab.

The British Museum Podcast is free, and available wherever you get your podcasts.

4. Liven up home learning with our digital resources

Whether you're searching for a little inspiration or more in-depth resources, we're here to help. The Museum has a broad range of free learning resources available on our website, covering ages 3-16+. Excite inquisitive minds as you teach them how Egyptian mummies were made, or learn about what the Romans ate and drank - then try out a recipe for honeyed bread together.

Our resources cover a wide range of curriculum links, including History, Art and Design and RE and we offer materials on diverse topics such as Sutton Hoo, Egypt, Rome, prehistoric Britain and the Vikings.
Explore the full range of online resources
5. Immerse yourself with audio tours

To get expert insights into the collection, listen to Museum curators introduce the galleries - each snippet offers a tantalising overview to whet your appetite. Available on Apple Music and YouTube Music, our world-leading curators have recorded introductions to 64 galleries so you can go on an adventure taking in anything from Assyrian lion hunts to Chinese jade. The tracks have also been translated into Korean, Chinese, Italian and Spanish.

Our Desire, Love, Identity audio tour explores LGBTQ histories in the collection. Narrated by renowned actor Simon Russell Beale and star of Killing Eve Fiona Shaw, the tour draws out previously hidden stories of same-sex love and desire from the collection. You'll hear about the 2,000-year-old Warren Cup - referred to as the 'holy grail of homosexuality' - as well as lesser-known objects such as a Maori treasure box carved with startling sexual imagery.

Subscribers to Apple Music can access the audio tours for a small fee. You can access them for free on YouTube Music.

6. Get geeky on YouTube

Our YouTube channel is home to our much-loved Curator's corner series, interviews with scientists and conservators and much, much more. Fancy learning how to write cuneiform then kicking back and watching an ancient rock gong being played? This is the place for you. You'll find recipes, how-to videos and more potential pub quiz knowledge than you can shake a stick at.

If you'd like to take a deeper dive into a specific topic, check out our playlists covering subjects such as manga, Troy, and our science and conservation work.
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7. See more on Google Arts & Culture

Discover more than 7,000 objects on our home-away-from-home - Google's online hub of content from museums and archives around the world. As well as collection information and images, our Google Arts & Culture pages also feature online exhibits such as Egypt: faith after the pharaohs and Street Views of sites in Central and South America. Plus, download the Google Arts & Culture app to see more special features, and see art in your own home via AR.
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While you're there, check out the interactive experience The Museum of the World. A mind-boggling visualisation of how two million years of human cultures and histories are interconnected, this interactive timeline is illustrated with objects from the British Museum collection.

8. Eight million objects at your fingertips

The collection is available to everyone on Collection online. You can search for objects and images using keywords, or try filtering by place, artist or material if you're feeling more expert. You may find this handy guide useful for navigating the site.
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Alternatively, you can browse through broader themes and collection histories on our main site. Explore all the weird and wonderful creatures in the collection through our animals page. Or look through the collection by region - we've created easy-to-navigate pages on China, Africa, Egypt and the Americas.
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9. Bury your nose in the blog

If you have ambitions to read more and binge-watch less, head right here to the Museum blog. Find your footing in the ancient world with Who was Achilles? Or get lost in amazing Museum stories, like our recent piece about the beautiful and surreal constituent parts of dust in the Museum. The blog is updated regularly and includes pieces from both guest and Museum voices.
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10. Attend an event

Choose from talks, performances and much more when you browse our bustling programme of online events. Whether it's a virtual Late for one of our exhibitions or a study course to help you pick up that language you've been meaning to learn, there are plenty of ways to keep your cultural calendar filled.

11. Stay in touch

Make sure to subscribe to our emails and follow us on social media so you can keep exploring history, humanity and the British Museum itself and be the first to hear about our latest news.

Take care out there. We look forward to welcoming you back through the Museum doors soon.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

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Over 5,000 years of art from around the world.

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The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, home of the Dutch masters

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The museum of the Netherlands, in Amsterdam. 800 years of Dutch history, with the great Dutch masters as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh.