Type Public Location Madrid, Spain Founded 1744 Phone +34 915 24 08 64 | Established 1744 Founder Ferdinand VI of Spain Province Community of Madrid | |
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Address Calle de Alcalá, 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Hours Closed now Saturday10AM–3PMSunday10AM–3PMMondayClosedTuesday10AM–3PMWednesday10AM–3PMThursday10AM–3PMFriday10AM–3PMSuggest an edit Artwork The Madhouse, The Inquisition Tribunal, Self‑Portrait in the Studio, La Tirana, A Procession of Flagell Similar Museo Nacional Del Prado, Museo Nacional Centro de, Museum of Lázaro Galdiano, Thyssen‑Bornemisza Museum, Círculo de Bellas Artes Profiles | ||
Real academia de bellas artes de san fernando madrid spain
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.
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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 centuries: 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.