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Leone Battista Alberti , Florentine, 1404 - 1472
Self-Portrait, c. 1435
bronze, irregular oval: 20.1 x 13.55 cm (7 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection

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Cover, The Italian Legacy in Washington, D.C.: Architecture, Design, Art and Culture (2007), edited by Luca Molinari and Andrea Canepari. Published by Skira Editore S.p.A., Milan, Italy. Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, NY

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His Excellency, Italian Ambassador to the United States, Giovanni Castellaneta
Photograph courtesy of the Embassy of Italy

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Michelangelo's David/Apollo in its crate arriving for exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, December, 1948. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Leonardo da Vinci
Ginevra de' Benci, c. 1474
National Gallery of Art, Washington , Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

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The Italian Embassy in Washington, DC. Image courtesy of the Italian Embassy.

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The Italian Embassy in Washington, DC. Image courtesy of the Italian Embassy.

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The Italian Embassy in Washington, DC. Image courtesy of the Italian Embassy.

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Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano. Photograph courtesy the National Gallery of Art, Washington

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The West Building of the National Gallery of Art.
Photograph © Dennis Brack / Black Star. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington

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John Russell Pope, sheet of sketches for design of the National Gallery of Art, February 1936.
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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Raphael
The Alba Madonna, c. 1510
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection

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The West Building Rotunda of the National Gallery of Art.
Photograph © Dennis Brack / Black Star. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Giorgio Vasari with drawings by Filippino Lippi and Botticelli
Giorgio Vasari, Florentine, 1511 - 1574
Filippino Lippi, Florentine, 1457 - 1504
Sandro Botticelli, Florentine, 1446 - 1510
Page from "Libro de' Disegni", The sheets by Filippino Lippi and Botticelli were probably executed between 1480 and 1504; Vasari mounted the drawings and added the decorative framework after 1524.
album page with ten drawings on recto and verso in various media with decoration in pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, on light buff paper, 56.7 x 45.7 cm (22 5/16 x 18 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund