Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Native name:
Spanish: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
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Madrid, Spain |
| Spanish Property of Cultural Interest |
| Official name: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando |
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Non-movable |
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Monument |
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1971[1] |
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RI-51-0003855 |
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The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the heart of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery.
The academy was established by royal decree in 1744. About twenty years later, the enlightened monarch, Charles III purchased a palace in Madrid as the academy's new home. The building had been designed by José Benito de Churriguera for the Goyeneche family. The king commissioned Diego de Villanueva to convert the building for academic use, employing a neoclassical style in place of Churriguera's baroque design. Doubling as a museum and gallery, today it houses a fine art collection of paintings from the 15th to 20th century: Giovanni Bellini, Correggio, Rubens, Zurbarán, Murillo, Goya, Juan Gris, Pablo Serrano... The academy is also the headquarters of the Madrid Academy of Art.
Francisco Goya was once one of the academy's directors, and, its alumni include Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Antonio López García, Juan Luna, and Fernando Botero.[2][3]
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Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Real_Academia_de_Bellas_Artes_de_San_Fernando Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando] at Wikimedia Commons
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Spanish Royal Academies. Institute of Spain
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