Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Established	1744
Type	Public
Location	Madrid, Spain
Website	http://rabasf.insde.es

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Native name Spanish: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Location	Madrid, Spain
Spanish Property of Cultural Interest
Official name Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Type	Non-movable
Criteria	Monument
Designated	1971[1]
Reference #	RI-51-0003855

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.

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 century: Giovanni Bellini, Correggio, Rubens, Zurbarán, Murillo, Goya, Juan Gris, Pablo Serrano... 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 Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Antonio López García, Juan Luna, and Fernando Botero.^[2][3]

See also

• Giuseppe Arcimboldo

References

External links

Media related to Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando at Wikimedia Commons

• Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando website (in Spanish)

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Coordinates: 40°25′05″N 3°42′01″W / 40.41806°N 3.70028°W / 40.41806; -3.70028