Context: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe. On March 18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum at Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program., The Portrait of the Vendramin Family is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian , executed around 1543 -- 1547 . It presently hangs in the National Gallery in London . The canvas was commissioned by the noble Vendramin family , and portrays , as dictated by Venetian custom , only male members of the dynasty . It includes the brothers Andrea and Gabriele Vendramin , and Andrea 's seven sons . However Andrea was apparently only three years older than Gabriele , which one would not think from the two figures here . It remains uncertain which depicted by Vittore Carpaccio , Gentile Bellini and other artists in a series of paintings for the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista . When accidentally dropped into a canal during a congested procession the relic did not sink but hovered over the water , evading others trying to help , until an earlier Andrea Vendramin dived in and retrieved it . This Andrea had been presented with the relic in 1369 , in his capacity as head of the confraternity or Scuola of San Giovanni Evangelista . Both the large Bellini painting , The Miracle of the True Cross near San Lorenzo Bridge , of 1496 -- 1500 , and the Carpaccio of 1494 , are now in the Accademia museum in Venice . Titian 's painting has been described as , `` one of the greatest group portraits in history '' . It balances youth and wisdom as well as demonstrating the power of this family and their public commitments to the Republic . The relic is a central part of the portrait and was seen as both a symbol of the Serene Republic , and a personal symbol for the Vendramin family . The painting remained in Venice until at least 1636 when it was bought by Anthony van Dyck who was painter at the court of Charles I. After his death it was bought by the Earl of Northumberland and passed by descent through the Earls and Dukes of Northumberland and Somerset until 1929 , when it was bought by the National Gallery . At some point it has been cut down on both sides and at the bottom ., The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The Gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Its collection belongs to the public of the United Kingdom and entry to the main collection is free of charge. It is among the most visited art museums in the world, after the Musée du Louvre, the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art., Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (1488/1490  27 August 1576), known in English as Titian , was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto, Republic of Venice). During his lifetime he was often called "da Cadore", taken from the place of his birth., Subject: portrait of the vendramin family, Relation: movement, Options: (A) contemporary art (B) venetian school
Output: venetian school