Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

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The Museum of Fine Arts (Dutch: 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. Over 600 works can be found on display permanently, with the collection largely focusing on Flemish Art (Southern Netherlands). 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. The building was designed by city architect Charles van Rysselberghe around 1900. 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...

- Josse Sébastien van den Abeele - Self Portrait (19th century) MSK

- Abraham van Beijeren - Still Life with Fish (1666) MSK

- Frits Van den Berghe - The Singing Statue (1928) MSK

- Pieter de Bloot - Landscape with a Farmhouse (c.1645) MSK

- Jan Boeckhorst - Apollo and Python (17th century) MSK

- Hieronymus Bosch - St. Jerome at Prayer (c.1485) MSK

- Anna Boch - Cliffs on the Coast of Sanary (1936) MSK

- Hieronymus Bosch - Christ Carrying the Cross (c.1510) MSK

- Ferdinand De Braekeleer the Elder - The Bat (1860) MSK

- Jan de Bray - Portrait of a Young Woman (c.1665) MSK

- Pieter Brueghel the Younger - Wedding Dance in the Open Air (17th century) MSK

- Gaspar de Crayer - The Judgement of Solomon (c.1620) MSK

- Paul Delvaux - The Staircase (1946) MSK

- Gustave Den Duyts - Panoramic View of Ghent (c.1881) MSK

- Anthony van Dyck - Jupiter and Antiope (c.1620) MSK

- Henri Evenepoel - The Spaniard in Paris /Portrait of the Painter Francisco Iturrino (1899) MSK

- James Ensor - Children at their Morning Toilet (1886) MSK

- Léon Frédéric - The Funeral Meal (1886) MSK

- Heinrich Funk - Landscape at Dusk in Tyrol (1847) MSK