Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Cuba)
The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana is the most important art museum in Cuba .
The museum was founded in 1913 . Since 1953 it has been in its current domicile, the Palacio de Bellas Artes . Around 1200 works of art from antiquity, European and Latin American art to the present day are currently on display on an area of 7600 m².
The painting collection
The main attraction of the museum is the collection of European painting from the 15th to the early 20th century. The collection mainly includes works from the English, Flemish, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish schools. Including some works of great art historical importance.
Old Dutch masters
Hans Memling : Triptych - Maria with the child and donor couple
German champion
Ludger tom Ring the Younger : Portrait of a Lady
English masters
Thomas Gainsborough : Portrait of William Pitt; Portrait of the future King George IV: as Prince of Wales; John Hoppner : Portrait of Miss Sarah Gale; Godrey Kneller : Portrait of a Lady; Thomas Lawrence : Portrait of Mrs. Edward Foster; Henry Raeburn : Portrait of the Mis Margaret Inglis; Allan Ramsay : Portrait of Lawrence Reade; Joshua Reynolds : Portrait of Miss Frances Kemble; George Romney : Portrait of Mrs. John Chaworth Pattern; William Turner : Ancient landscape with figural staffage
Flemish masters
Jan Brueghel the Elder J .: Fair; Jan Cossiers : The five senses; Anthony van Dyck : Portrait of Lady Mayo; Peter Paul Rubens : Girl and Faun with a Fruit Basket; Theodor van Thulden : Christ on the scourge column; Marten van Valckenborgh circle: The Tower of Babel; Cornelis des Vos : Portrait of a Lady
French masters
Eugène Carrière : head of a woman; Camille Corot : Old Bridge in Mantes; Charles-François Daubigny : cliffs; Monsù Desiderio : The Martyrdom of a Saint; Narcisse Virgilie Díaz de la Peña : The Fontainebleau Forest; François Xavier Fabre : Portrait of Elisabetta Fabiola Mascagni; Jean-François Millet : Landscape with Sheep; Adolphe Monticelli : Ladies in a Garden; Jean-Baptiste Pater : Scène Galante; Louis Tocqué : Portrait of a Lady
Dutch champions
Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem : landscape with Italian scenery; Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp : The Circumcision of Christ; Isaac van Duynen : still life with fish; Barent Fabritius : Portrait of a bearded man; Willem Claesz. Heda : still life; Thomas de Keyser : Portrait of an Elderly Woman; Gerard de Lairesse : Allegory of Spring; Willem van Mieris : family portrait; Aert van der Neer : Oude Kerk on the Amstel; Rembrandt School: Portrait of a Man; Jan Steen : Self-Portrait with Flute; Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck : Portrait of a man; Jan Wijnants : Landscape
Italian champions
Jacopo Bassano : St. Christopher; Agnolo Bronzino : Portrait of a Lady; Giovanni Antonio Canal : View of the Thames; Vittore Carpaccio : reception of a delegation; Annibale Carracci : Adam and Eve; Giacomo Francesco Cipper : The Spinner; Luca Giordano : Abraham and the Angels; Francesco Guardi : lagoon in front of Fondamenta Nuove; Guercino : The Triumph of David; Michele Marieschi : Venetian scene; Giovanni Paolo Pannini : Roman ruins; Matia Preti : Joseph before Pharaoh; Guido Reni : Maria with the child; Jacopo Tintoretto : Lucretia
Spanish champions
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo : The Holy Family with the Johannesknaben; Jusepe de Ribera : Saint Sebastian; Saint John the Baptist; Saint Catherine of Alexandria; Luis Tristán : The Martyrdom of St. Andrew; Juan Valdés Leal : Saint John of Capistrano; Diego Velázquez workshop: The Mocking of Christ; Francisco de Zurbarán : Saint Bruno; Maria with the child
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2017: Tony Cragg : Esculturas y Dibujos (April 7th to June 12th, 2017)
literature
- Marta Arjona: The National Museum of Cuba. Painting , Leningrad 1978
Web links
- Official Website (Spanish)
Coordinates: 23 ° 8 '24.8 " N , 82 ° 21' 25.9" W.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cuba customer-Editor: Andreas B. Lindner: Cuban National Museum shows Tony Cragg. In: kubakunde.de. April 13, 2017. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .