After eleven years of closed doors due to works, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA) reopened on Saturday.
It is an event because this institution created by Napoleon and installed in its current walls since 1890 has the largest art collection in Flanders.
Not to mention the drawings, watercolors and prints, 454 paintings exhibited and 200 sculptures ranging from the beginning of the 14th century to today.
Out of a total of 6,400 preserved works (over 2,000 sheets) this seems little.
But the quality of what we finally see brought together again over these 37 rooms, plus thirteen intended for temporary exhibitions, is such that it is enough to satisfy the visitor.
From the
local Mona Lisa
, the red and blue
Madonna surrounded by seraphim and cherubs
by Jean Fouquet, to the abstract
Last Day
by Pierre Alechinsky, what treasures indeed during these three kilometers of wandering.
Past the monumental hall, typically academic with its caryatids and frescoes of great men...
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