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And for students and educators of the visual arts, NGA Images offers an opportunity like no other to view and share great works of art often hidden away from even the museum’s visitors. While I can tell you from experience that it’s nothing like standing face to face with these paintings in their in-real-life dimensions, textures, lines, and colors-despite the throngs of disinterested tourists-it’s at least a close second. You are the curator! And the lucky beneficiary of the National Gallery’s beneficence. Use the “ lightbox arranger” to sort, store, annotate, and save your own personalized collections for future viewing. Conduct advanced searches, if you’ve more knowledge of the Gallery’s many treasures. You can peruse the Gallery’s most requested images here.īrowse the various collections, including one devoted to self-portraits.
The collection is dizzying, and a lover of art could easily lose hours sorting through it, saving “ open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each available free of charge for download and use.” The purpose of NGA Images is “to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration,” and there’s no doubt that it satisfies all of those goals and then some. You’ll find paintings from the heroes of the various Renaissances and French Impressionism, from movements modern and colonial, pastoral and urban. There you’ll find works by another obsessive Dutch self-portraitist, Rembrandt van Rijn, such as the lush 1659 painting below. Now, thanks to the wonders of digital technology, my older self, and yours, can view and download high-resolution photos of both paintings, and over 50,000 more from the museum’s vast holdings, through NGA Images, “a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art.”
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