Many people come to this museum for a single reason, to see Edvard Munch’s The Scream. A proto-Expressionist painting known to all, there’s nothing to say about The Scream that hasn’t already been said.
When you see this icon of modern art you may be surprised to see that it is painted on cardboard. And while The Scream and another Munch masterpiece, the Madonna, are a worthy main events, there’s more for art aficionados to sink their teeth into.
The National Gallery’s collection has Renaissance and Baroque pieces by Lucas Cranach the Elder, El Greco, Orazio Gentileschi, Giovanni Battista Gaulli and Jan van Goyen, as well as 19th and 20th-century art by masters like Monet, Picasso, Renoir and Paul Cézanne.
