Musee des beaux-arts d'Angers description and photos - France: Angers (Topic)

Angers Museum of Fine Arts (Musee des beaux-arts d'Angers) description and photos - France: Angers. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. Title in English - Musee des beaux-arts d'Angers.

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The Museum of Fine Arts in Angers is located a few hundred meters from the city's two main attractions - Angers Castle and Saint Maurice Cathedral. And very close to the gallery named after the sculptor and medalist David Anjersky - these buildings form the museum quarter, which also includes the library and university premises.

The Museum of Fine Arts is located within the walls of a late 15th century mansion, which was built by the mayor of Anjou and the treasurer of Brittany, Olivier Barrot in the French Renaissance style. The walls of this mansion have seen many famous personalities who have left their mark on the history of France - for example, King Louis XII, Caesar Borgia and Maria de Medici, whose property it was. In 1673, the building was acquired by the Catholic Church and, after significant reconstruction, housed a seminary.

During the Great French Revolution, a central school was opened in the mansion, but it did not last long - only two years, from 1801 to 1803. The museum created at the school continued its work and even two years later, with the opening of the natural history hall, expanded your exposition. In 1839, in one of the premises of the former seminary, the gallery of David d'Ange was opened, which in 1984 moved to the building of the restored Church of All Saints.

In the middle of the 19th century, the museum became the owner of a real treasure - the collection of Lancelot received by will Theodore Turpin de Criss, which included items of Egyptian, ancient Roman and ancient Greek origin, faience and paintings by the famous painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Another large-scale replenishment of the museum collection took place in 2003, when, according to the will of Daniel Duclos, the castle of Villeevec, which became a branch of the museum, and almost a thousand works of art passed to the museum.

At the end of the last and the beginning of this century, the museum was reconstructed, and today it is one of the largest museums France located in the province. Its area is about seven hectares.

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