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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: 63,862 works shared openly by the museum, shown in Auriaan as a galaxy of stars.

Opens the Auriaan flight. Every work is a star; the picture and its details come live from the museum.

Museum

National Gallery of Art

City

Washington, D.C.

Country

United States

Works in Auriaan

63,862

Licence

CC0 (Open Access)

At the museum

The museum's own page: Open Access page, National Gallery of Art. Credit line used in Auriaan: National Gallery of Art, Washington · Open Access, CC0.

Some works from this collection

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  In the tour Artists of Switzerland in the world's museums

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  In the tour Animal hunt

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  In the tour Animal hunt

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  In the tour 1,800 years of faces

Tours with works from this collection

• Artists of Switzerland in the world's museumsTen artists born or at home in Switzerland, from Liotard to Klee, in nine museums around the world.
• Animal huntEight animals are hiding in works of art from all over the world. Can you find them?
• 1,800 years of facesTen portraits, from Roman Egypt to Van Gogh. Look for the clues: who, when, and why?
• The world around 1600What were artists making around 1600? A journey westward from Japan to Spain, in ten works, most of them made within about ten years of that date.
• The moonA god, a hare, a bodhisattva, a crescent, a castle, a jar, geese, photographs, the sea and a city by night: the moon in ten works from around the world.
• The seaWaves, a storm, a calm, a harbour and a sunrise: eight ways of looking at the sea, across 3,000 years.
• How old is it?Eight works from four museums. Guess when each was made before you hear the story: some are far older than they look, and two are younger.
• Albrecht DürerEleven works by the painter and printmaker from Nuremberg: a self-portrait, a rhinoceros and a magic square.
• Rembrandt, in the mirrorTen self-portraits, painted, etched and drawn: from the curly-haired young man to the old master.
• VermeerThirteen of his rare paintings, in the order he made them: quiet rooms, letters and light.
• Giovanni Battista PiranesiRome, real and imagined, in the order he etched it: ruins, squares, prisons, temples and a fireplace.
• J. M. W. TurnerStorms, fire, moonlight and golden haze, in order of date: from a Welsh castle to a storm at sea.
• Claude MonetEleven paintings in the order he made them: the sea, Camille, grainstacks, a cathedral, London fog and his pond.
• Mary CassattFrom Seville to Paris: a theatre box, a letter, an omnibus and a boat trip. Ten paintings, prints and a pastel, in the order she made them.
• Van GoghTen years of work, from the grey Dutch coast to the colours of the south: eleven works, in the order he made them.

Other collections in United States

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Smithsonian Institution
• J. Paul Getty Museum
• The New York Public Library
• Princeton University Art Museum
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Yale Center for British Art
• Yale University Art Gallery

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