Museo de Bellas Artes

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The Museu de Belles Arts de Vala¨ncia (Valencian pronunciation: [muzw a°e eez adz de valensia]; Spanish: Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia; English: Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia ) is an art gallery in Valencia, Spain, founded in 1913. It houses some 2,000 works, most dating from the 14th-17th centuries, including a Self portrait of Diego Vela¡zquez, a St. John the Baptist by El Greco, Goya’s Playing Children, Gonzalo Perez’s Altarpiece of Sts. Ursula, Martin and Antony and a Madonna with Writing Child and Bishop by the Italian Renaissance master Pinturicchio. It also houses a large series of engravings by Giovan Battista Piranesi.

The museum is housed in the St. Pius V Palace, built in the 17th-18th centuries. It has also sections dedicated to sculpture, to contemporary art and to archaeological findings.

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