National Gallery of Canada

Portrait of a Woman - Jean Leon Gerome

Detail: Portrait of a Woman - Jean Leon Gerome

Portrait of a Man with a Hat - Lorenzo Lotto

Portait of Pope Urban VIII Barberini - Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Louise Bourgeois' Spider sculpture outside the National Gallery of Canada

I visited the National Gallery of Canada last weekend to check out the Van Gogh exhibit. This gallery has a wonderful permanent collection that's so worth seeing. Every time I visit I find something I hadn't quite noticed before. This time it was the fabulous Gerome portrait of a woman, the tender Lotto portrait of a man and the endearing Bernini bust of Pope Urban VIII.