Musée des Beaux-Arts
Le château, Esplanade de la Paix, 14000 Caen
The Museum of Fine Arts of Caen, located in the heart of the castle of Guillaume-le-Conquérant, in a contemporary building, the Museum of Fine Arts is among the most important museums in France in terms of European painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (France, Italy, Flanders, Holland), while its collection of engravings makes it one of the must-see places. Since 2007, the medieval castle has been home to a sculpture park. Remarkable collections: the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen presents a vast panorama of creation from the 15th to the 21st century. It preserves one of the richest collections of paintings of museums in the regions for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Italian (Cosme Tura, Giordano, Guerchin, Pérugin, Tintoret, Veronese), French (Champaigne, Poussin, Vouet), Flemish and Dutch (Bruegel, Rubens, Ruysdael, Seghers, Van Der Weyden). The eighteenth century is represented through French and Italian portraitists and landscapers (Boucher, Rigaud, Tournières
Tags
Musée de France, Musée, salle d'exposition, Monument historique i Site patrimonial remarquable
Acceso
Saint Pierre stop by tram/ bus - Parking lot
© MBA, Caen
