The Museum of Fine Arts ( English Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , abbreviated MFAH ) in Houston - one of the largest art museums in the United States and the largest in Texas. The permanent collection of the museum covers more than six thousand years of history and contains more than 63 thousand exhibits [1] .
| Houston Museum of Fine Arts | |
|---|---|
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | |
 Audrey Jones Beck Building | |
| Founding date | 1900 |
| Location | |
| Address | Houston ( US ) |
| Visitors per year | |
| Site | mfah.org |
The main collections of the museum are mainly located in two neighboring buildings (connected by an underground passage) [2] - the Audrey Jones Beck building ( Eng. The Audrey Jones Beck Building ) and the building of Caroline Wiss Law Building .
In addition, the museum includes the Lilly and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden , the School of Art, and the Glassell School of Art and Glassell Junior School , collections, and Baiu Gardens. Bend ( eng. Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens ) and the building Rienzi.
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Museum collection
15th — 16th Century European Paintings
The collection of European painting of the 15th — 16th centuries is represented by paintings by artists such as Rogier van der Weyden (Madonna and Child, after 1454 [3] ), Hans Memling ( Portrait of an Elderly Woman , 1468–1470 [4] ), Sandro Botticelli (“The Adoration of the Infant Christ,” about 1500 [5] ), Bartolomeo Veneto (“The Portrait of a Man,” 1512 [6] , and “The Portrait of a Woman,” 1520s [7] ), Sebastiano del Piombo (“Anton Francesco Albizzzi” , 1525 [8] , Lukas Cranach the Elder (“Lucretia's Suicide”, 1529 [9] ), Jacopo Bassano and Francesco Bassano the Younger (“Christ in the House of Mary, Martha and Lazarus”, 1576–1577 [10] ), Domain Co Tintoretto (“Tancred, converting Clorinda to Christianity,” about 1586–1600 [11] ) and others.
Rogier van der Weyden
Madonna and Child
(after 1454)Hans Memling
Portrait of an elderly woman (1468-1470)Bartolomeo Veneto
Portrait of a man (1512)Sebastiano del Piombo
Anton Francesco Albiztsi (1525)
European painting of the 17th — 18th centuries
Juan van der Amen
Still Life with Fruit and Glass Objects (1626)Rembrandt
Portrait of a Young Woman (1633)Canaletto
Grand Canal and the Church della Salute (1730)Angelika Kaufman
Ariadne, abandoned by Theseus (1774)
19th – 20th Century European Paintings
Camille Corot
Orpheus, bringing Eurydice out of the realm of the dead (1861)Gustave Courbet
Gust of wind (approaching storm) (1865)Adolphe William Bouguereau
Older sister (1869)Pierre Auguste Renoir
Still life with bouquet and fan (1871)Edouard Manet
Toilers of the Sea (1873)Gustave Caibotte
Orange Trees (1878)Vincent van Gogh
Boulders and Oak (1888)Claude Monet
Water lilies (1907)
American Painting
Thomas Cole
The Road of the Indians (1847)Frederick Edwin Church
Cotopaxi (1855)Albert Bierstadt
Indians fishing with a spear (1862)Frederick Remington
Battle of the water source (1903)
Notes
- ↑ Collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (HTML) (not available link) . www.mfah.org. The appeal date is May 18, 2012. Archived September 21, 2012.
- ↑ Main Campus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (HTML). www.mfah.org. The appeal date is May 18, 2012. Archived September 21, 2012.
- ↑ 100 Highlights of the MFAH: Rogier van der Weyden - Virgin and Child (HTML) (not available link) . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The appeal date is November 23, 2012. Archived December 11, 2012.
- ↑ European Painting and Sculpture - Portrait of an Old Woman (HTML). The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The appeal date is November 23, 2012. Archived December 11, 2012.
- ↑ 100 Highlights of the MFAH: Sandro Botticelli - The Adoration of the Christ Child (HTML) (not available link) . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The appeal date is November 23, 2012. Archived December 11, 2012.
- ↑ European Painting and Sculpture - Portrait of a Man (HTML). The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The appeal date is November 23, 2012. Archived December 11, 2012.
- ↑ 100 Highlights of the MFAH: Bartolomeo Veneto - Portrait of a Lady (HTML) (not available link) . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The appeal date is November 23, 2012. Archived December 11, 2012.
- Of Arts of Europe: Sebastiano del Piombo - Anton Francesco degli Albizzi Neopr (HTML) (not available link) . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The appeal date is November 23, 2012. Archived December 11, 2012.
- Of Arts of Europe: Lucas Cranach The Elder - The Suicide of Lucretia (HTML) (not available link) . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The appeal date is November 23, 2012. Archived December 11, 2012.
- In Arts of Europe: Jacopo Bassano, Francesco Bassano - Christ in the House of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus (HTML) (not available link) . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The appeal date is November 23, 2012. Archived December 11, 2012.
- ↑ Arts of Europe: Domenico Tintoretto - Tancred Baptizing Clorinda (HTML) (not available link) . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The appeal date is November 23, 2012. Archived December 11, 2012.