Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
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The Museum of Fine Arts ({{langx|nl|Museum voor Schone Kunsten}}, MSK) an art museum in Ghent, Belgium, is situated at the East side of the Citadelpark (near the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst).
The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks, dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mskgent.be/nl/collectie|title = Een greep uit de collectie | MSK Gent}} Over 600 works can be found on display permanently, with the collection largely focusing on Flemish Art (Southern Netherlands).{{Cite web|url=https://www.mskgent.be/nl/collectie|title = Een greep uit de collectie | MSK Gent}} It also houses several European—especially French—paintings, in addition to a large amount of sculptures.
Next to its permanent collection the museum organises temporary exhibitions. Between March 2011 and January 2021, the museum conducted 41 exhibitions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mskgent.be/nl/tentoonstellingen|title = | MSK Gent}}
The building was designed by city architect Charles van Rysselberghe around 1900.{{Cite web|url=https://visit.gent.be/en/see-do/museum-fine-arts-ghent#:~:text=MSK%3A%20from%20confiscations%20to%20a%20huge%20art%20collection&text=The%20ideal%20location%20was%20found,and%20a%20lot%20of%20light.|title = Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent}}
In 2007 the museum reopened after four years of restoration.
The museum is a member of The Flemish Art Collection. This is a structural partnership joining the three main museums of fine arts in Flanders: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, the Groeninge Museum in Bruges and the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts. The museums’ collections have all been developed in a similar way and complement each other perfectly. Together, they offer a unique, representative overview of Flemish art from the 15th to the 20th century.
As partners sharing the same responsibility in Belgian cultural heritage, the three museums exchange their expertise, they strive for a more sustainable, high quality management and international awareness of their collections, including works that are part of the world patrimony.
Paintings
Image:Hieronymus Bosch 055.jpg by Hieronymus Bosch, part of the permanent collection at the MSK]]
File:Heinrich Funk - Landscape at Dusk in Tyrol - high resolution.jpg]]
File:Théodore Géricault - Portret van een kleptomaan.JPG by Théodore Géricault]]
File:Maarten van Heemskerck - Man of Sorrows - WGA11301.jpg by Maarten van Heemskerck]]
File:Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach - Das Sinai-Katharinenkloster 1892.jpg
File:Theodoor Rombouts - Allegory of the five senses.jpg]]
Source: [https://www.mskgent.be/en/collection MSK]
- Josse Sébastien van den Abeele - Self Portrait (19th century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/self-portrait-1 MSK]
- Abraham van Beijeren - Still Life with Fish (1666) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/still-life-fish MSK]
- Frits Van den Berghe - The Singing Statue (1928) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/singing-statue MSK]
- Pieter de Bloot - Landscape with a Farmhouse (c.1645) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/landscape-farmhouse MSK]
- Jan Boeckhorst - Apollo and Python (17th century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/apollo-and-python MSK]
- Hieronymus Bosch - St. Jerome at Prayer (c.1485) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/saint-jerome-0 MSK]
- Anna Boch - Cliffs on the Coast of Sanary (1936) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/cliffs-coast-sanary-provence MSK]
- Hieronymus Bosch - Christ Carrying the Cross (c.1510) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/christ-carrying-cross-0 MSK]
- Ferdinand De Braekeleer the Elder - The Bat (1860) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/bat MSK]
- Jan de Bray - Portrait of a Young Woman (c.1665) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/portrait-young-woman-fragment MSK]
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger - Wedding Dance in the Open Air (17th century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/wedding-dance-open-air MSK]
- Emile Claus - The Skaters (1891) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/skaters MSK]
- Gaspar de Crayer - The Judgement of Solomon (c.1620) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/judgement-salomon MSK]
- Paul Delvaux - The Staircase (1946) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/staircase MSK]
- Gustave Den Duyts - Panoramic View of Ghent (c.1881) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/panoramic-view-ghent MSK]
- Anthony van Dyck - Jupiter and Antiope (c.1620) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/jupiter-and-antiope MSK]
- Henri Evenepoel - The Spaniard in Paris /Portrait of the Painter Francisco Iturrino (1899) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/spaniard-parisportrait-painter-francisco-iturrino MSK]
- James Ensor - Children at their Morning Toilet (1886) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/children-their-morning-toilet MSK]
- Léon Frédéric - The Funeral Meal (1886) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/funeral-meal MSK]
- Heinrich Funk - Landscape at Dusk in Tyrol (1847) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/landscape-dusk-tyrol MSK]
- Théodore Géricault - Portrait of a Kleptomaniac (c.1820) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/portrait-kleptomaniac MSK]'
- Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder - Still Life with Vegetables and Fruits [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/still-life-vegetables-and-fruits MSK]
- James Guthrie - Schoolmates (1884) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/schoolmates MSK]
- Cornelis de Heem - Still Life with Flowers and Fruits (1670) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/still-life-flowers-and-fruits MSK]
- Maarten van Heemskerck - Man of Sorrows (1532) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/man-sorrows-formerly-church-st-cornelius-machelen MSK]
- Maarten van Heemskerck - Calvary (1543) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/calvary-0 MSK]
- Jacob Jordaens - The Judgement of Midas (17th century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/judgement-midas MSK]
- Fernand Khnopff - Incense (1898) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/incense MSK]
- Urbanus Leyniers - The Glorification of Apollo (1717) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/glorification-apollo MSK]
- Léon Augustin Lhermitte - The Grandmother (1880) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/grandmother MSK]
- Nicolaes Maes - Portrait of a Woman (1663) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/portrait-woman-0 MSK]
- Alessandro Magnasco Praying Monks (18th century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/praying-monks MSK]
- René Magritte - Perspective II, Manet's Balcony (1950) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/perspective-ii-manets-balcony MSK]
- Harrington Mann - Kathleen (1906) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/kathleen MSK]
- Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach - The St Catherine Monastery in the Sinai (19th century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/st-catherine-monastery-sinai MSK]
- Paula Modersohn-Becker - Girl in a Birch Forest (1903) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/girl-birch-forest MSK]
- Jenny Montigny - The Gardener (20th Century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/gardener MSK]
- Joseph Paelinck - The Beautiful Anthia Leading her Companions into the Temple of Diana in Ephesus (1820) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/beautiful-anthia-leading-her-companions-temple-diana-ephesus MSK]
- Fanny Paelinck-Horgnies - The Saint Cecilia (1829) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/saint-cecilia MSK]
- Constant Permeke - Ostend Harbour (c.1913) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/ostend-harbour MSK]
- Nicolas de Plattemontagne - Portrait of a Young Man (17th century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/portrait-young-man MSK]
- Ramah - The Painter (1922) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/painter MSK]
- Hubert van Ravesteyn - Still Life with a Pipe, Nuts, a Pitcher and a Tobacco Pouch (1670) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/still-life-pipe-nuts-pitcher-and-tobacco-pouch MSK]
- Petrus Johannes van Reysschoot - The Meet (1743) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/meet MSK]
- Peter Paul Rubens - The Flagellation of Christ (1617) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/flagellation-christ MSK]
- Peter Paul Rubens - Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (c.1633) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/saint-francis-assisi-receiving-stigmata MSK]
- Théo van Rysselberghe - The Lecture by Emile Verhaeren, 1903 (1903) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/lecture-emile-verhaeren-1903 MSK]
- Theodoor Rombouts - Allegory of the Five Senses (1632) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/allegory-five-senses MSK]
- Theodoor Rombouts - Allegory of the Second Bench of Aldermen of ‘Gedele’ (c.1627) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/allegory-second-bench-aldermen-gedele MSK]
- Hugo Salmson - Visiting the Tenant Farmer (19th century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/visiting-tenant-farmer MSK]
- Gustave De Smet - The Good House (1926) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/good-house MSK]
- Leon De Smet - Interior or A Loving Couple (1911) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/interior-or-loving-couple MSK]
- Léon Spilliaert - Silhouette of the Artist (1907) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/silhouette-artist MSK]
- Léon Spilliaert - The Second of November (Interior) (1908) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/second-november-interior MSK]
- Alfred Stevens - Mary-Magdalene (1887) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/mary-magdalene MSK]
- Tintoretto - Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Cornaro (1561) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/portrait-giovanni-paolo-cornaro MSK]
- Prosper de Troyer - With the Birds (1928) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/birds MSK]
- Edgard Tytgat - Invitation to Paradise (1922) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/invitation-paradise MSK]
- Edgard Tytgat - The Last Doll (1923) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/last-doll MSK]
- Edgard Tytgat - Four Nude Girls in a Boat (1950) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/four-nude-girls-boat MSK]
- Lodewijk de Vadder - The Soignes Forest with Market Vendors (17th century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/soignes-forest-market-vendors-0 MSK]
- Frans Verhas - The Lion (1874) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/lion MSK]
- Pierre Joseph Verhaghen - The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (1767) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/presentation-christ-temple MSK]
- Cornelis de Vos - Family Portrait (1630) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/family-portrait MSK]
- Anna De Weert - My Studio in June, 1909-1910 (1909–10) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/my-studio-june-1909-1910 MSK]
- Liévin De Winne - Portrait of the Sculptor Paul De Vigne (19th century) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/portrait-sculptor-paul-de-vigne MSK]
- Gustave Van de Woestyne - Still Life (c.1922) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/still-life MSK]
- Carel Willink Het evenwicht der krachten Equilibrium of forces (1963)
- Anders Zorn - With Mother (1895) [https://www.mskgent.be/en/featured-item/mother MSK]
- [{Puccio di Simone}]"Coronation of Virgin"(14th Century,Italian)MSK,Ghent
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.mskgent.be/en/ official website] {{in lang|nl|fr|en}}
- [http://www.flemishartcollection.be The Flemish Art Collection]
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