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| Lorenzo Leonbruno (Mantua) Nativity ca. 1515 oil on panel National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder (Germany) Garden of Gethsemane 1518 oil on panel National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Bonifacio Veronese (Venice) Holy Family with Tobias and the Angel, St Dorothy, and St John the Baptist before 1553 oil on panel National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
In 1959 Le Corbusier built a museum in Tokyo to house a collection of European art, a project intended "as a symbol of the resumption of diplomatic ties between Japan and France after World War II." The core collection of this new National Museum of Western Art had been assembled early in the 20th century by a political-industrial tycoon named Kojiro Matsukata (1865-1950). Additionally, "the museum has purchased art work every year since its establishment in its efforts to build and develop its permanent collection."
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| Francesco Salviati (Florence) Portrait of a man before 1563 oil on canvas National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Giorgio Vasari (Florence) Garden of Gethsemane ca. 1570 oil on panel National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| El Greco (Spain) Annunciation ca. 1590-1603 oil on canvas Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan |
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| Peter Paul Rubens (Flanders) Two Sleeping Children ca. 1612-13 oil on panel National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Jacob Jordaens (Flanders) after Peter Paul Rubens Flight of Lot and his Family from Sodom ca. 1618-20 oil on canvas National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Gerrit Dou (Netherlands) Still-life with boy blowing soap-bubbles ca. 1635-36 oil on panel National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Jusepe de Ribera (Naples) The Philosopher Crates 1636 oil on canvas National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Guido Reni (Bologna) Lucretia ca. 1636-38 oil on canvas National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Govert Flinck (Netherlands) Lamentation 1637 oil on canvas National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| David Teniers the Elder (Flanders) Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan 1638 oil on copper National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Simon Vouet (France) St Catherine of Alexandria before 1649 oil on canvas National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |