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National Museum Cardiff

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National Museum Cardiff (Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd) is a museum and art gallery in Cardiff, Wales. [1]

84 relations: Aeneid, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Amico Aspertini, Applied arts, Archaeology, Art Fund, Art museum, Auguste Rodin, Augustus John, Auvers-sur-Oise, Beaumaris, Botany, Bronze, Cardiff, Cardiff Bus, Cathays Park, Cathays railway station, Ceri Richards, Charles Clore, Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, David Davies (industrialist), David Jones (artist-poet), Donation, Dylan Thomas, Eric Gill, Fine art, Francis Bacon (artist), Frank Auerbach, Frans Snyders, French art, Gaspard Dughet, George Romney (painter), Gilbert Bayes, Glamorgan, Goscombe John, Gwen John, Gwendoline Davies, Hebe (mythology), Herbert Ward (sculptor), Honoré Daumier, House of Medici, Jacob Epstein, Jan van de Cappelle, Jean-François Millet, Johan Zoffany, John Gibson (sculptor), Joshua Reynolds, Kyffin Williams, L. S. Lowry, ..., La Parisienne (Renoir painting), Margaret Davies, National Gallery, Nicolas Poussin, Old Library, Cardiff, Organ (music), Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pompeo Batoni, Post-Impressionism, Queen Victoria, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Wilson (painter), Robert Adam, Rouen Cathedral (Monet series), Salvator Rosa, San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, Stanley Spencer, The Funeral of Phocion, The Kiss (Rodin sculpture), Thomas J Clapperton, Thomas Jones (artist), University of Wales Press, Vincent van Gogh, Water Lilies (Monet series), Welsh art, Welsh Government, World War I, Wynford Dewhurst, Zoology. Expand index (34 more) »

Aeneid

The Aeneid (Aeneis) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

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Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, formerly the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, is a Welsh Government sponsored body that comprises seven museums in Wales.

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Amico Aspertini

Amico Aspertini (c. 1474 – 1552), also called Amerigo Aspertini, was an Italian Renaissance painter whose complex, eccentric, and eclectic style anticipates Mannerism.

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Applied arts

The applied arts are the application of design and decoration to everyday objects to make them aesthetically pleasing.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Art Fund

Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation.

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Art museum

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.

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Auguste Rodin

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor.

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Augustus John

Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher.

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Auvers-sur-Oise

Auvers-sur-Oise is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Beaumaris

Beaumaris (Biwmares) is a former royal borough, a community, and the former county town of Anglesey, Wales.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Cardiff Bus

Cardiff Bus Cardiff City Transport Services Limited (Bws Caerdydd) is the dominant operator of bus services in Cardiff, Wales and the surrounding area, including Barry and Penarth.

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Cathays Park

Cathays Park or Cardiff Civic Centre (Parc Cathays) is a civic centre area in the city centre of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, consisting of a number of early 20th century buildings and a central park area, Alexandra Gardens.

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Cathays railway station

Cathays railway station is a station on the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda lines in the Cathays district of Cardiff, Wales.

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Ceri Richards

Ceri Giraldus Richards, CBE (6 June 1903 – 9 November 1971) was a British painter, print-maker and maker of reliefs.

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Charles Clore

Sir Charles Clore (24 December 1904 – 26 July 1979) was a British financier, retail and property magnate and philanthropist.

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Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era.

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Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.

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David Davies (industrialist)

David Davies (18 December 1818 – 20 July 1890) was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1886.

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David Jones (artist-poet)

Walter David Jones CH, CBE (known as David Jones, 1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was both a painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets.

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Donation

A donation is a gift for charity, humanitarian aid, or to benefit a cause.

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

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Eric Gill

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics or beauty, distinguishing it from applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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Francis Bacon (artist)

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery.

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Frank Auerbach

Frank Helmut Auerbach (born 29 April 1931) is a German-British painter.

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Frans Snyders

Frans Snyders or Frans Snijders (11 November 1579, Antwerp – 19 August 1657, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, market scenes and still lifes.

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French art

French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of France.

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Gaspard Dughet

Gaspard Dughet (15 June 1615 – 27 May 1675), also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome.

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George Romney (painter)

George Romney (26 December 1734 – 15 November 1802) was an English portrait painter.

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Gilbert Bayes

Gilbert William Bayes (4 April 1872 – 10 July 1953) was an English sculptor.

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Glamorgan

Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire, (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg) is one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county of Wales.

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Goscombe John

Sir William Goscombe John (21 February 1860 – 15 December 1952) was a Welsh sculptor.

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Gwen John

Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career.

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Gwendoline Davies

Gwendoline Elizabeth Davies, CH (11 February 1882 – 3 July 1951), was a Welsh philanthropist and patron of the arts who, together with her sister Margaret, is recognised as the most influential collector of Impressionist and 20th-century art in Wales.

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Hebe (mythology)

Hebe (Ἥβη) in ancient Greek religion, is the goddess of youth (Roman equivalent: Juventas).

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Herbert Ward (sculptor)

Herbert Ward (11 January 1863, London – 5 August 1919, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a British sculptor, illustrator, writer and African explorer.

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Honoré Daumier

Honoré-Victorin Daumier (February 26, 1808February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.

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House of Medici

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century.

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Jacob Epstein

Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American-British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture.

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Jan van de Cappelle

Jan van de Cappelle (or Joannes / van der / Capelle in various combinations; 25 January 1626 (baptized) – 22 December 1679 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of seascapes and winter landscapes, also notable as an industrialist and art collector.

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Jean-François Millet

Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France.

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Johan Zoffany

Johan Joseph Zoffany, RA (born Johannes Josephus Zaufallij, 13 March 173311 November 1810) was a German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England.

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John Gibson (sculptor)

John Gibson (19 June 1790 – 27 January 1866) was a Welsh Neoclassical sculptor who studied in Rome under Canova.

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Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits.

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Kyffin Williams

Sir John "Kyffin" Williams, KBE, RA (9 May 1918 – 1 September 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll, on the Island of Anglesey.

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L. S. Lowry

Laurence Stephen Lowry (1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist.

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La Parisienne (Renoir painting)

La Parisienne is an oil painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, completed in 1874 and now displayed at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff.

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Margaret Davies

Margaret Sidney Davies (14 December 1884 – 13 March 1963), was a Welsh art collector and patron of the arts.

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National Gallery

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London.

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Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.

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Old Library, Cardiff

The Old Library (Yr Hen Lyfrgell) is a Grade II* listed building in Cardiff, Wales.

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Organ (music)

In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.

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Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 188622 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (or;; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

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Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.

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Pompeo Batoni

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures.

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Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread, CBE (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts.

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Richard Wilson (painter)

Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was an influential Welsh landscape painter, who worked in Britain and Italy.

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Robert Adam

Robert Adam (3 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.

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Rouen Cathedral (Monet series)

The Rouen Cathedral series was painted in the 1890s by French impressionist Claude Monet.

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Salvator Rosa

Salvator Rosa (June 20 or July 21, 1615 – March 15, 1673) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker, who was active in Naples, Rome, and Florence.

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San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk

Saint-Georges majeur au crépuscule (Eng: Dusk in Venice, San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight or Sunset in Venice) refers to an Impressionist painting by Claude Monet, which exists in more than one version.

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Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (23 September 1749 – 24 July 1789) was a Welsh landowner, politician and patron of the arts.

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Stanley Spencer

Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter.

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The Funeral of Phocion

The Funeral of Phocion is a 1648 landscape painting, also known as The Burial of Phocion, Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion and Landscape with the Body of Phocion Carried out of Athens, by the French artist Nicolas Poussin.

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The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)

The Kiss (Le Baiser) is an 1882 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin.

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Thomas J Clapperton

Thomas J Clapperton FRBS (14 October 1879 – 1962) was a Scottish sculptor, famous for the statue of Robert the Bruce at the entrance of Edinburgh Castle erected in 1929.

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Thomas Jones (artist)

Thomas Jones (26 September 1742 – 29 April 1803) was a Welsh landscape painter.

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University of Wales Press

The University of Wales Press (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru) was founded in 1922 as a central service of the University of Wales.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Water Lilies (Monet series)

Water Lilies (or Nymphéas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926).

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Welsh art

Welsh art refers to the traditions in the visual arts associated with Wales and its people.

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Welsh Government

The Welsh Government (Llywodraeth Cymru) is the devolved government for Wales.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Wynford Dewhurst

Wynford Dewhurst, R.B.A. (Manchester, 26 January 1864 – 9 July 1941, Burton upon Trent) was an English Impressionist painter and notable art theorist.

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Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_Cardiff

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