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Museu de Belles Arts de València

The (; ; English: "Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia") is an art gallery in Valencia, Spain, founded in 1913. It houses some 2,000 works, most dating from the 14th–17th centuries, including a ''Self portrait of Diego Velázquez'', a ''St. John the Baptist'' by El Greco, Goya's ''Playing Children'', Gonzalo Pérez's ''Altarpiece of Sts. Ursula, Martin and Antony'' and a ''Madonna with Writing Child and Bishop'' by the Italian Renaissance master Pinturicchio. It houses a large series of engravings by Giovan Battista Piranesi.

The museum is in the St. Pius V Palace, built in the 17th–18th centuries. It has also sections dedicated to sculpture, to contemporary art and to archaeological findings. Provided by Wikipedia