Musée Oldmasters Museum

The Oldmasters Museum is an art museum in Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to European painters from the 15th to the 18th centuries. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The museum was founded in 1801 by Napoleon. It was originally named the Musée royal d’art ancien.

The main building which now houses the Oldmasters Museum was built as the Palace for Fine Arts (French: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Dutch: Paleis voor Schone Kunsten) (not to be confused with the current Centre for Fine Arts). It was designed by the architect Alphonse Balat and funded by King Leopold II. Balat was the king’s principal architect, and the building was one part of the king’s vast construction projects for Belgium. The building was completed in 1887, and stands as an example of the Beaux-Arts architecture use of themed statuary to assert the identity and meaning of the building

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