Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

The Musée des Beaux -Arts is an art museum opened in 1801 in Lyon. It is located in an old Benedictine abbey, which was dissolved in the wake of the French Revolution. In 70 galleries the museum's collection is presented. This includes antiques, works of art and coins from different eras from Ancient Egypt to the Modern. 2007 the museum was visited by 242,000 art lovers.

History

Until 1792 the museum building was an abbey, whose abbess came from the high French nobility. Because of the importance of the abbey funded Louis XIV in the 17th and 18th centuries, major renovations. These works are due to the Baroque elements of the building. As a result of the French Revolution, the nuns of the abbey were expelled. Thereafter, the Palais du Commerce et des Arts housed in the building, were collected in the confiscated ecclesiastical property only from plants. In time, archaeological and natural history objects were taken. 1805 in the building also founded an art school to train pattern designer for the resident in Lyon silk industry. In 1860, the Palais des Arts was set up in the building instead of the previous use. As a result, the collection was greatly expanded. At the beginning of the 20th century, the collection was getting bigger and more diverse. Also, the name of the institution in the Musée des Beaux -Arts was renamed. From 1988 to 1998, the museum building major restoration was subjected.

Collection

The painting collection of the Musée des Beaux -Arts includes paintings of the 15th and 16th century by Italian artists such as Perugino and Veronese. From the 17th century as the Spaniard Antonio Pereda and Francisco de Zurbarán, and the French Simon Vouet, Philippe de Champaigne and Eustache Lesueur are represented. In addition to the stoning of St. Stephen, an early work by Rembrandt van Rijn, including works by Peter Paul Rubens can be seen. The collection of paintings from the 19th and early 20th century works by Théodore Géricault, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Braque. Among other things, Claude Monet's work is to see Stormy Sea at Etretat. Examples of 20th century paintings are works of Jean Bertrand Holle, Jean Le Moal, Alfred Manessier and Gustave Singier.

Stormy Sea at Etretat by Claude Monet, 1883

Danae by Tintoretto, 1570

Stoning of St. Stephen by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1625

Nave Nave Mahana ( Delightful Days ) by Paul Gauguin, 1896

The collection of objects from ancient Egypt is based on a donation of about 400 pieces from the Louvre in Paris. Another significant gift were 1000 objects from the family Lorets Victor, who was an eminent French Egyptologist. Significant pieces of the collection are sarcophagi and the Gates of Ptolemy III. and Ptolemy IV of the Temple of al - Madamud. In addition, canopic jars, reliefs and stelae are seen. There are also religious and cultic objects, and everyday objects.

Boat model from the 12th Dynasty

Fragment of a relief from the Temple of Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XV.

Other areas of the collection of the museum are objects from Sumer and Babylon, the ancient art, Islamic art, graphics and sculptures.