The National Gallery of Canada (in English, National Gallery of Canada and in French, Musée des beaux arts du Canada), is an art museum located in the capital of that country, Ottawa. It is one of the main art museums on the American continent.
The museum is housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive, with a prominent view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 1988.[1].
History
The museum was founded in 1880 by Governor General John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, and in 1882 it was located in its first headquarters, on Parliament Hill, in the same building as the Supreme Court. In 1911 it moved to the Victoria Memorial Museum, currently the headquarters of the Canadian Museum of Nature. In 1913 the first National Gallery Act was passed, outlining the institution's objectives and its resources.[1] In 1962 the National Gallery moved to a rather nondescript office building on Ottawa's Elgin Street, next to the British High Commission. It moved to its current building on Sussex Drive, next to Nepean Point, in 1988.
In 1985 the newly created Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP), formerly the Stills Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada, was associated with the national gallery. The CMCP mandate, its collection and staff moved to its new headquarters in 1992, at No. 1 Rideau Canal, next to the Château Laurier. In 1998 the administration of CMCP was merged with that of the National Gallery.
Collection
The National Gallery has a large and varied collection of paintings, drawings, sculpture and photographs. Although it focuses on Canadian art, it preserves works by many prominent European artists. It has a large collection of contemporary art with some of Andy Warhol's most famous works.[2].
The country's art collections range from ancient indigenous times to the 1970s. Other sections include European and Asian art, as well as a section of international contemporary art.
The best-known section is that of Europe between the 15th and 20th centuries, with painting, sculpture and minor or decorative arts. The Renaissance has examples of Simone Martini (), Piero di Cosimo, Bartolomeo Veneto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Baldung Grien (), Quentin Massys, Hans Eworth, Lorenzo Lotto, Bronzino () and El Greco ().
National Gallery of Canada
Introduction
The National Gallery of Canada (in English, National Gallery of Canada and in French, Musée des beaux arts du Canada), is an art museum located in the capital of that country, Ottawa. It is one of the main art museums on the American continent.
The museum is housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive, with a prominent view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was designed by Moshe Safdie and opened in 1988.[1].
History
The museum was founded in 1880 by Governor General John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, and in 1882 it was located in its first headquarters, on Parliament Hill, in the same building as the Supreme Court. In 1911 it moved to the Victoria Memorial Museum, currently the headquarters of the Canadian Museum of Nature. In 1913 the first National Gallery Act was passed, outlining the institution's objectives and its resources.[1] In 1962 the National Gallery moved to a rather nondescript office building on Ottawa's Elgin Street, next to the British High Commission. It moved to its current building on Sussex Drive, next to Nepean Point, in 1988.
In 1985 the newly created Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP), formerly the Stills Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada, was associated with the national gallery. The CMCP mandate, its collection and staff moved to its new headquarters in 1992, at No. 1 Rideau Canal, next to the Château Laurier. In 1998 the administration of CMCP was merged with that of the National Gallery.
Collection
The National Gallery has a large and varied collection of paintings, drawings, sculpture and photographs. Although it focuses on Canadian art, it preserves works by many prominent European artists. It has a large collection of contemporary art with some of Andy Warhol's most famous works.[2].
Saint Catherine
Eve, the Serpent and Death
Portrait of Pierantonio Bandini
Saint Francis and Brother Leo
The baroque repertoire opens with Rubens (The Burial of Christ, copied from Caravaggio's original in the Vatican Museums) and continues with Van Dyck (Jesus Blesses the Children), Rembrandt (Bathsheba), Annibale Carracci, Orazio Gentileschi (Lot and His Daughters), Bernini, Guercino and Nicolas Poussin. In 2023, researcher Benito Navarrete attributed a canvas, Fish Seller, to the Spanish Baroque painter Francisco de Herrera el Mozo, until then anonymous.
The century includes Venetian views by Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto and Francesco Guardi, as well as everyday scenes by Chardin, and the famous historical painting The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West.
The century includes a life-size sculpture by Antonio Canova, landscapes by John Constable, Turner and Camille Corot (The Bridge of Narni) and a relevant repertoire between realism and Van Gogh, with Honoré Daumier (Third Compartment), Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Degas, Cézanne and Paul Gauguin.
The century does not decline in the museum, from the symbolism of James Ensor and Gustav Klimt, to the minimalism of Dan Flavin and the abstraction of Barnett Newman. In between, the fauvism of André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and Kees Van Dongen, the cubism of Picasso and Georges Braque, and other examples of Gino Severini, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock...
In 1990 the gallery acquired Barnett Newman's work Voice of Fire for one million eight hundred thousand dollars, which caused a strong controversy given that the painting was nothing more than three strips of paint. However, since then it has appreciated strongly. In 2005, a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Francesco Salviati "Francesco Salviati (painter)") was acquired for four and a half million dollars.[3].
Gallery of works
• - Hans Eworth, Portrait of Lady Dacre.
• - Bronzino, Portrait of Pierantonio Bandini.
• - Benjamin West, The Death of Wolfe.
• - Honoré Daumier, Third Compartment.
• - Camille Pissarro, Gathering hay in Éragny.
• - Cézanne, Forest.
• - Louise Bourgeois, Maman "Mama (sculpture)"), outside the museum.
• - Wikimedia Commons hosts a multimedia gallery about National Gallery of Canada.
The country's art collections range from ancient indigenous times to the 1970s. Other sections include European and Asian art, as well as a section of international contemporary art.
The best-known section is that of Europe between the 15th and 20th centuries, with painting, sculpture and minor or decorative arts. The Renaissance has examples of Simone Martini (Saint Catherine), Piero di Cosimo, Bartolomeo Veneto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Baldung Grien (Eve, the Serpent and Death), Quentin Massys, Hans Eworth, Lorenzo Lotto, Bronzino (Portrait of Pierantonio Bandini) and El Greco (Saint Francis and Brother Leo).
The baroque repertoire opens with Rubens (The Burial of Christ, copied from Caravaggio's original in the Vatican Museums) and continues with Van Dyck (Jesus Blesses the Children), Rembrandt (Bathsheba), Annibale Carracci, Orazio Gentileschi (Lot and His Daughters), Bernini, Guercino and Nicolas Poussin. In 2023, researcher Benito Navarrete attributed a canvas, Fish Seller, to the Spanish Baroque painter Francisco de Herrera el Mozo, until then anonymous.
The century includes Venetian views by Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto and Francesco Guardi, as well as everyday scenes by Chardin, and the famous historical painting The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West.
The century includes a life-size sculpture by Antonio Canova, landscapes by John Constable, Turner and Camille Corot (The Bridge of Narni) and a relevant repertoire between realism and Van Gogh, with Honoré Daumier (Third Compartment), Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Degas, Cézanne and Paul Gauguin.
The century does not decline in the museum, from the symbolism of James Ensor and Gustav Klimt, to the minimalism of Dan Flavin and the abstraction of Barnett Newman. In between, the fauvism of André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and Kees Van Dongen, the cubism of Picasso and Georges Braque, and other examples of Gino Severini, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock...
In 1990 the gallery acquired Barnett Newman's work Voice of Fire for one million eight hundred thousand dollars, which caused a strong controversy given that the painting was nothing more than three strips of paint. However, since then it has appreciated strongly. In 2005, a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Francesco Salviati "Francesco Salviati (painter)") was acquired for four and a half million dollars.[3].
Gallery of works
• - Hans Eworth, Portrait of Lady Dacre.
• - Bronzino, Portrait of Pierantonio Bandini.
• - Benjamin West, The Death of Wolfe.
• - Honoré Daumier, Third Compartment.
• - Camille Pissarro, Gathering hay in Éragny.
• - Cézanne, Forest.
• - Louise Bourgeois, Maman "Mama (sculpture)"), outside the museum.
• - Wikimedia Commons hosts a multimedia gallery about National Gallery of Canada.