“East Building Architectural Tour” shows several photographs and accompanying discussion of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, which opened in 1978. The tour is centered around the architectural features of the building itself rather than the art works exhibited. Audio commentaries from the designer of the building, l.M. Pei, and the director of the Gallery, Earl A. Powell lil, are avaiiable (NGA) (http://www.nga.gov/collection/eastarch1.htm).

“The Emergence of New Genres” exhibits 6 Italian paintings of the late 16th and early 17th centuries that show the establishment of landscape, still life, and genre paintings as subjects worthy of the finest artists for the first time since antiquity (NGA) (http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg33/gg33-main1.html)

“Raphael” shows paintings of the youngest of the 3 painters who epitomize the High Renaissance. According to the exhibit, "What Leonardo achieved by sheer intellect and Michelangelo through passionate intuition, Raphael acquired by persistent study and assimilation" (NGA) (http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg20/gg20-main1.html).

“Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century” shows 7 paintings of what has been called the "Golden Age of Spanish Painting" (NGA) (http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg30/gg30-main1.html).

“Venice and the North” is a tour of 16th century Italian painters who lived in areas largely under Venetian control. The site discusses the interplay of influences of both the Protestant Reformation in areas bordering just north of where these painters worked and the Catholic Counter-Reformation response (NGA) (http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg22/gg22-main1.html).

“Whistler, Sargent, and Tanner -- Americans Abroad in the Late 1800s” shows several paintings of 3 American painters who not only studied abroad but chose to remain abroad (NGA) (http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg69/gg69-main1.html).