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The Fogg Art Museum, which opened to the public in 1895, is Harvard's oldest art museum. Around its Italian Renaissance courtyard are galleries illustrating the history of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, with particular strengths in Italian early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, and 19th-century French art. The Wertheim Collection, housed on the second floor, is one of America's finest collections of Impressionist and post-Impressionist work, and contains many famous masterworks, including those by Cezanne, Manet, Matisse, Monet, and Picasso. Central to the Fogg Art Museum’s holdings is the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, a collection of more than 4,000 works of art. Bequeathed to Harvard in 1943, the collection continues to play a pivotal role in shaping the collections and legacy of the Art Museums, serving as a foundation for teaching, research, and professional training programs. On display in the Fogg’s second floor galleries, the Winthrop Collection includes 19th-century masterpieces by Blake, Burne-Jones, David, Daumier, van Gogh, Homer, Ingres, Renoir, Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Sargent, and Whistler, as well as early Chinese art, from archaic jades to bronze ritual vessels, weapons, mirrors, bells, ornamental fittings, and Buddhist sculptures in stone and gilt bronze. The Fogg Art Museum also houses the Phillip A. and Lynn Straus Center for Conservation, the first facility of its kind in the world.

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