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[[File:Da Vinci Ginevra.jpg|thumb|Da Vinci, Ginevra dei Benci.]]

[[File:Da Vinci Ginevra.jpg|thumb|Da Vinci, Ginevra dei Benci.]]

The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts is one of the finest art collections in the world. "The nucleus of the original collection was 21 masterpieces, once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the [[Hermitage Museum]], Leningrad. These works included the Annunciation (c.1434) by Jan van Eyck, Titian's Venus with a Mirror (1550-55), and Raphael's Alba Madonna (c.1511). The beautiful portrait Ginevra dei Benci (c.1475), the only painting by [[Leonardo da Vinci]] in the Western Hemisphere, is another highlight of the gallery's collection. The American art holdings include [[James Whistler|James A. M. Whistler]]'s Symphony in White No. 1: The White Girl (1862)." [http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/artgal.html]  

The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts is one of the finest art collections in the world. "The nucleus of the original collection was 21 masterpieces, once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the [[State Hermitage Museum|Hermitage Museum]], Leningrad. These works included the Annunciation (c.1434) by Jan van Eyck, Titian's Venus with a Mirror (1550-55), and Raphael's Alba Madonna (c.1511). The beautiful portrait Ginevra dei Benci (c.1475), the only painting by [[Leonardo da Vinci]] in the Western Hemisphere, is another highlight of the gallery's collection. The American art holdings include [[James Whistler|James A. M. Whistler]]'s Symphony in White No. 1: The White Girl (1862)." [http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/artgal.html]