Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
arts museum in Antwerp, Belgium
About Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen; KMSKA) is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. This collection is representative of the artistic production and the taste of art enthusiasts in Antwerp, Belgium and the Northern and Southern Netherlands since the 15th century. The neoclassical building housing the collection is one of the primary landmarks of the Zuid district of Antwerp. The majestic building was designed by Jean-Jacques Winders (1849–1936) and Frans Van Dijk (1853–1939), built beginning in 1884, opened in 1890, and completed in 1894. History The museum's collection began with the artworks owned by the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke, which was active from the late 14th century to 1773. When the guild disbanded, its gallery of paintings went to the Academy of Fine Arts , which had been founded in 1663 with the involvement of David Teniers . The gallery had works by Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens , and Cornelis de Vos . During French occupations in 1794 and 1796, art was looted from churches and other buildings in Antwerp; the pieces that were later recovered became. Collections Jean Fouquet , Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels Hans Memling , Portrait of a Man with a Roman medal The Education of Mary by Peter Paul Rubens . Artists exhibited in the museum include: 15th century Jan van Eyck Jean Fouquet Rogier van der Weyden Hans Memling 16th century: Frans Floris de Vriendt Quinten Metsijs Joachim Patinir Marten de Vos Gillis Coignet 17th century: Erasmus de Bie Jan Brueghel the Elder Anthony van Dyck Frans Hals Jacob Jordaens Theodoor Rombouts Peter Paul Rubens 19th century: James Ensor Auguste Rodin Henry van de Velde.
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Notable artists at Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Titian
Tiziano Vecellio (Italian: ; c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( TISH-ən), was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Titian…
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Gustave Courbet
1819–1877
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Jacques-Louis David
1748–1825
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder
1525–1569
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Raphael
1483–1520
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Emanuel de Witte
1617–1692
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Joos van Cleve
1485–1540
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Nicolaes Maes
1634–1693
Movements represented
Works from Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners
Alexandre Cabanel
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Seven Sacraments
Rogier van der Weyden
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Valley of Amblève
Jean-Baptiste Kindermans
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Study of Art in Rome
Anton Goubau
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Festival of the Archers
Master of Frankfurt
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Christ on the Cross between the two criminals
Anthony van Dyck
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Saint Jerome in His Study
Marinus van Reymerswaele
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Jacopo Pesaro, Bishop of Paphos, being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter
Titian
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The old inn
Henri de Braekeleer
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Music-making Angels
Hans Memling
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
I Mourn because the World is so Untrustworthy
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Christ with Singing Angels
Hans Memling
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Still Life with Fish
Clara Peeters
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Allegorical Figure with Flowers
Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen the Younger
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Madonna at the Fountain
Jan van Eyck
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Peasant Woman Digging Up Potatoes
Vincent van Gogh
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Calvary
Antonello da Messina
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Fortune Teller
Simon de Vos
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Emperor Charles V as a child
Jan van Beers
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Snow in Flanders
Valerius de Saedeleer
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Still life with pottery, herring and pancakes, a print of an owl on the wall
Hieronymous Francken II
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Still Life with Fruit and Asparagus
Adriaen Coorte
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Still life with pewter jug
Jan Jansz den Uyl
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels
Jean Fouquet
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Norbertus van Couwerven, abbot of St Michael's
Katharina Pepijn
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Pope Paul III in front of the Portrait of Luther
Albrecht De Vriendt
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Mussel Eaters
Gustave De Smet
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Landscape by moonlight
Aert van der Neer
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Triptych of Antonius Tsgrooten
Goswin van der Weyden
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Monkey Trick
David Teniers the Younger
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Bagpiper
Adriaen van de Velde
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Hare Hunt
Philips Wouwerman
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Dymphna and her Companions about to Embark
Goswin van der Weyden
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Two Girls as Saint Agnes and Saint Dorothea
Michaelina Wautier
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
St Dorothea of Caesarea in a Flower Garland
Philips de Marlier
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Still Life
Frans Snyders
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Landscape with Tobias and the Archangel Raphael
Denis van Alsloot
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Luteplayer
Gerard ter Borch
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Portrait of a Girl as a Huntress
Caesar van Everdingen
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Mary and Joseph find no lodgings in Bethlehem
Jan Matsys
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Landscape with Diana and Actaeon
Kerstiaen de Keuninck
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Joannes Gaspard Gevartius, (1593-1666)
Peter Paul Rubens
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Portrait of a Woman with Sunflowers
Carel de Moor
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Fish Seller
Willem van Mieris
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Summer on the Maas
Juliette Wytsman
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Collection of paintings of Sebastiaan Leerse
Frans Francken the Younger
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Piazza Navona in Rome
Anton Goubau
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Wooded landscape with a robbery on a forestpath
Jan Brueghel, the elder
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Madonna and Child with angels
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Holy Family in a Flower Garland
Daniel Seghers
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Ironer
Rik Wouters
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Daughters of Cecrops Finding the Child Erichthonius
Jacob Jordaens
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Banker and his Wife
Marinus van Reymerswaele
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Water Mill
Lucas van Uden
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Madonna in a flower garland
Jan Philip van Thielen
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Kermis in a Flemish village
Peeter Gijsels
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Cavalry Skirmish with Foot Soldiers
Pieter Wouwerman
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Tax Collectors
Marinus van Reymerswaele
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Saint Martin's Day
Pieter Balten
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Fisher Boy
Frans Hals
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Plan your visit
arts museum in Antwerp, Belgium
- Address
- Leopold De Waelplaats Get directions
- Opening hours
- Weekdays 10:00-17:00; Thursday KMSKA LATE 10:00-22:00 except summer and Christmas holidays; Sat-Sun and public holidays 10:00-18:00; closed Dec 25 and Jan 1; Dec 24 and 31 10:00-16:00
- Admission
- yes
- Accessibility
- Wheelchair accessible
- Founded
- 1810
- Annual visitors
- 153,214
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