Musée des Beaux-Arts
18, place François-Sicard 37000 Tours
- Indre-et-Loire
- Centre-Val de Loire
A few steps away from the cathedral, the old(former) palace of archdiocese classified as "Historic Monument", shelters the collections of the museum of Fine Arts. The museum is installed(settled) in a historic building(ship) of an exceptional quality. The site is of a key importance for the history(story) of ancient Caesarodunum; the museum shelters in its underground passages the most beautiful pithy registration(inscription) to the glory of Turons. The first bishops had chosen to settle down close to the cathedral, in a palace following the rampart of the IVth century. The museum is officially create in 1801, from 1802 and for all XIXth century, buildings(ships) are again allocated to archdiocese. It is that in 1910 when collections reinstate(re-enter) the old(former) archiepiscopal palace. His(Her,Its) famous collections, in particular one of the biggest(greatest) collections of Italian Primitives after the Louvre museum, make one of the richest museums of France.
The most old(former) fund(collection) of the museum is established(constituted) of works seized in 1794 in the houses of emigrants, churches and convents, especially the big(great) abbeys of Marmoutier, of Bourgueil and of The Rich, as well as paintings(boards) and furniture resulting(coming) from the castle of Chanteloup, from Richelieu. Among the most famous let us quote Blanchard, Butcher, Boulogne, Houël, The Pit, Lamy, Sweat, Parrocel, Restout.
Created officially in 1801 by the consular decree which marks the creation of fifteen big(great) museums of provinces, the museum benefits from the Central Museum, future Louvre, from the deposit(warehouse) of thirty exceptional paintings(paints) including a series of pieces of reception of the royal Academy(Regional education authority) of painting(paint). It is at that time that the museum of the Fine Arts of Tours(Ballots,Towers) receives the Thanksgiving plaque of Rubens and the heads - of work of the Italian Renaissance whom are both panels(signs) of Andrea Mantegna. In the course of the XIXth century, the city of Tours(Ballots,Towers) acquires two important prizes(lots) of paintings(paints) where the French and Italian XVIIIth century is represented well. Deposits(Warehouses) of the State, legacies and gifts(donations) enrich the museum throughout the XIXth and XXth centuries in furniture, in paintings(boards), in works of art of diverse times(periods), increasing collections with Champaigne, Crow, Coypel, Lagrenée, Nattier, Perronneau, Rembrandt.
In 1963 the museum receives the collection of the painter and collector Octave Linet, establishing(constituting) so one of the biggest(greatest) collections of Italian Primitives after the Louvre museum and the Musée du Petit Palais of Avignon... The nineteenth century is also well represented, since the neoclassical school (Suvée, Taillasson), the Romanticism (Vinchon), the orientalism (Belly, Chassériau, Delacroix), the realism (Bastien-Lepage, Cazin, Gervex). The impressionism, the Post-impressionnism and the symbolism are present thanks to Monet's works, Degas, Henry Martin, Sidaner. The collection of works of the XXth century groups(includes) Asse, Besse, Briggs, Calder, Davidson, Debré, Denis, Degottex, Di Rosa, Monory, Morellet, Poliakoff, Zao Wou-ki.
Place of discovery and of distribution(broadcasting) of culture, the museum of the Fine Arts of Tours(Ballots,Towers) offers a wide choice(selection) of route(course): permanent collections, temporary exhibitions(exposures), conferences, concerts, library(bookcase), documentation as well as an educational service(department) for the school. Rich of its historic, architectural past and of its exceptional collection, the museum of the Fine Arts of Tours(Ballots,Towers) matters(counts) among the most important of France. Having opened on a French-style garden and under the shade(shadow) of a cedar listed(classified) «remarkable Tree of France» the museum knows how to gather(combine) the charm of a palace and the beauty of a collection.
Tags
Musée de France, Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire, Monument historique, Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir, Musée, salle d'exposition, Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO
Ville de Tours
