Museu de Belles Arts de València

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External view of the museum.

The Museu de Belles Arts de València (Valencian pronunciation: [muˈzɛw ðe ˈβeʎez ˈaɾdz de vaˈlensia]; 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 Velázquez, a St. John the Baptist by El Greco, Goya's Playing Children, Gonzalo Pérez'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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  Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple. Calzada Master.

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  Ecce Homo. San Narciso Master.

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  The Flagellation. Vrancke van der Stockt workshop.

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  Triptych of the Adoration of the Magicians. Master of Public Assistance Museum of Brussels.

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  Adoration of the Shepherds. Pieter Coecke van Aelst.

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  The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah. Obrador de Maerten de Vos.

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  Ramón María Narváez, primer duque de Valencia. Vicente López Portaña.

External links

• Official website (Spanish)