Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van Belgie) description and photos - Belgium: Brussels (Topic)

Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van Belgie) description and photos - Belgium: Brussels. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van Belgie.

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The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium is a combination of the Museum of Old Art and the Museum of Modern Art, located next to the Royal Palace of Brussels, the Antoine Wierz Museum and the Constantin Meunier Museum. It contains a large collection of paintings and sculptures belonging to the state, collected during the reign of the Austrian kings. Then these values were plundered by the French revolutionary troops and transported to Paris. Only after the death of Napoleon, all confiscated masterpieces were returned to their homeland.

The new kings William I and Leonidas I acquired many paintings for the museum, and the former burgomaster of Brussels donated priceless works of art of the Flemish primitivists, thanks to which the museum's collection has significantly expanded ... For example, the exposition from old collections is represented by works of Flemish, French and Italian painters.

From the XIV to the XVIII centuries. the main part of the exhibition is devoted to Belgian paintings stored in the Habsburg Palace. A collection of 20th century works is located in the annex to the building. The numbering of the halls of the Museum of Fine Arts is indicated not by numbers, but by letters. Here you can see the canvases of world famous masters - Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Quentin Masseis, as well as the triptych “Seven Sacraments” by Rogier van der Weyden, etc. The picture of the Belgian artist Fernand Knopor “Memories”, which is one of the brightest exhibits of the collection.

In Ixelles, a suburb of Brussels, there are the Antoine Wirtz Museum (opened in 1868) and the Constantin Meunier Museum (opened in 1978), part of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts. They exhibit works by surrealist masters.

Visiting the Museum of Fine Arts, you can see the unknown works of great artists, as well as get acquainted with the work of little-known painters.

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