Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The Brussels Museum has always had much greater value than renown. What injures it in the eyes of people whose minds instinctively take long flights, is its being but two steps from our own frontier, and consequently the first stage in a pilgrimage which conducts to sacred shrines. Van Eyck is at Ghent, Memling at Bruges, Rubens at Antwerp. Brussels possesses as its own none of these great men. She did not witness their birth ; she scarcely saw them paint; she has neither their ashes nor their masterpieces." --The Old Masters of Belgium and Holland (1876) by Eugène Fromentin |
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The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium. They include six museums: the Oldmasters Museum, the Magritte Museum, the Fin-de-Siècle Museum, the Modern Museum, the Antoine Wiertz Museum and the Constantin Meunier Museum.
The Royal Museums contains over 20,000 drawings, sculptures, and paintings, covering a period extending from the early 15th century to the present, such as those of Flemish old masters like Bruegel, Rogier van der Weyden, Robert Campin, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, and Peter Paul Rubens, making it the most popular art institution and most visited museum complex in Belgium. The Magritte Museum houses the world's largest collection of the works of the surrealist René Magritte.
See also
- see also KMSKA
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
- Centre for Fine Arts
- Colijn de Coter
- Culture of Belgium
- Royal Museums for Art and History
- Het laatste oordeel (Zuid-Nederlandse school)
