National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is located on the National Mall and is also a free museum. The collection is divided between the two buildings, East and West. The former is the older of the two, while the second was built in 1978 by the architect IM Pei, who was also responsible for the famous glass pyramids of the Louvre. The museum's collection includes works by artists from a wide variety of nationalities. The East Wing is primarily dedicated to modern art, but the West Wing focuses on classics: Italian painting from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, Flemish paintings from the fifteen and sixteenth