Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

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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, (Spain), currently functions as a museum and gallery. The academy was established by royal decree in 1744. About twenty years later, the enlightened monarch, Carlos III, Rey de España 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: Arcimboldo, Giovanni Bellini, Correggio, Guido Reni, Rubens, Zurbarán, Murillo, Fragonard, Goya, Juan Gris, Pablo Serrano, among others. 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 Felip Pedrell, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Antonio López García, Juan Luna, Oscar de la Renta and Fernando Botero.

Location: 40°25′03″N 3°42′02″W

 See also category: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

Building

Goyeneche palace

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  Fachada principal.
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  Fachada principal.
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  Fachada principal.
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  Salón de actos.
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  Interior.

Collection

Paintings

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  Cristo crucificado, de Alonso Cano.
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  La Virgen y el Niño con los pecadores arrepentidos, de Anton van Dyck.
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  El martirio de San Bartolome, de José de Ribera.
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  Susana y los viejos, de Peter Paul Rubens. Hacia 1609-1610.
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  Hernán Cortés. Obra anónima del siglo XVIII.
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  Venus Anadiómena, de Antonio Gisbert Pérez. 1858.
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  El infante Carlos María Isidro de Borbón, por Vicente López Portaña. Primer tercio del siglo XIX.
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  Retrato del rey Fernando VII de España, por Luis López Piquer. Primera mitad del siglo XIX.
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  Retrato de Fernando VII de España, por Vicente López Portaña. Primera mitad del siglo XIX.
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  Retrato del rey Alfonso XII de España, por Salvador Martínez Cubells. 1876.

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See also: Madrid and Comunidad de Madrid.