The Palace of Fine Arts in Lille ( French Palais des beaux-arts de Lille ) is one of the largest and most famous museums in France , the largest outside the French capital .
| Palace of Fine Arts | |
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| Palais des beaux-arts | |
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| Established | 1809 |
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| Visitors per year | about 316,000 per year (2012 data) |
| Site | pba-lille.fr |
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Ground
The initiative to create a museum was put forward in 1792. Artists and his son , known as the Lille Watteau, took an active part in the creation of the museum. The decrees of the revolutionary government on the confiscation of property of noble families who left the country during the French Revolution contributed to the replenishment of the museum fund. Louis Jose Watteau in 1795 made an inventory of the works confiscated during the revolution , and François Watteau was deputy curator of the museum from 1808 to 1823.
The museum was founded in 1809 by order of Napoleon as part of a campaign to popularize art: Chaptal's decree of 1801 selected 15 French cities, among them Lille, to organize museums, where collections of works of art from churches and from occupied territories will be transferred. The museum also received the right to receive works of art from the Louvre and Versailles . In addition, the museum’s collection has expanded significantly thanks to numerous donors and philanthropists. In 1866, the collection of the Vicar Museum, collected by Jean-Baptiste Vicar , replenished the foundation of the Palace of Fine Arts.
Building
The museum was originally located in a church confiscated from , the French branch of the Franciscan order . The construction of the present building in the style of the Belle Epoque began in 1885 under the supervision of Jerry Legrand, mayor of Lille, and was completed in 1892. The architects of the new building project were Eduard Berard (1843-1912) and Fernand Etienne-Charles Delmas (1852-1933). The building is located in Republic Square, in the city center, overlooking the Lille prefecture. In 1975, the museum building was recognized as a historical monument. It was renovated in the 1990s and reopened to visitors in 1997. [one]
Assembly
The museum includes the following departments: antiquity , the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , paintings of the 16th-20th centuries, sculptures , ceramics , models , graphics and numismatics . The collection of paintings includes about 650 paintings belonging to the artists of the Flemish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and French schools [2] . French painting is especially widely represented, including works by Delacroix , David , Gericault , Corot , Courbet , Puvis de Chavannes . The sculpture department is also dominated by works by French masters of the 19th century. Of particular value is the extensive collection of graphics, numbering about 4000 sheets [2] .
Notes
- ↑ http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/merimee_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=REF&VALUE_1=PA00107719
- ↑ 1 2 All about the museums of the world, 2007 , p. 70.
Literature
- All about the museums of the world / II. Mosin. - St. Petersburg: SZKEO "Crystal", 2007. - P. 70. - 176 p. - ISBN 978-5-9603-0069-8 .
- Le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille par Alain Tapié, Marie-Françoise Bouttemy, Annie Castier, et Dominique Delgrange aux éditions Réunion des musées nationaux, ISBN 2-7118-5222-9
- Les Plans en relief des places fortes du Nord: dans les collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille by Isabelle Warmoes, ISBN 2-85056-838-4
- Catalog des dessins italiens: Collection du Palais des beaux-arts de Lille , aux éditions Réunion des musées nationaux, ISBN 2-7118-3392-5