Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia | |
Native Name: | Museu de Belles Arts de València |
Native Name Lang: | Valencian |
Coordinates: | 39.479°N -0.371°W |
Established: | 24 July 1913 |
Location: | 9 San Pío V street – Valencia, (Spain) |
Type: | Art museum |
Curator: | Generalitat Valenciana |
Website: | Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia |
The Catalan; Valencian: '''Museu de Belles Arts de València'''|i=no (pronounced as /muˈzɛw ðe ˈbeʎez ˈaɾdz de vaˈlensi.a/; Spanish; Castilian: link=no|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 houses a large series of engravings by Giovan Battista Piranesi.
The museum is 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.