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Cleopatra
Cabanel shows Cleopatra watching poison tested on condemned prisoners. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1887 before being shipped to Antwerp that September.
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Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium
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- Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
- Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
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Images: Cleopatra, Alexandre Cabanel, and The Prodigal Son, Peter Paul Rubens, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim, Jean Fouquet, photograph by Cedric Verhelst, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp – Flemish Community, public domain. Images resized and cropped. Other collection thumbnails are illustrative Lensmark examples, not works from KMSKA.
What the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp collection covers
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, known as KMSKA, brings together seven centuries of art, from Flemish Primitives to Expressionists. Its collection has particular depth in James Ensor and Rik Wouters. The collection
The collection grew from Antwerp's artists' guild and academy. The museum was founded in 1810, and its present building opened in 1890.
Its collection strengths include Flemish Primitives, Peter Paul Rubens and Antwerp Baroque, and James Ensor and Rik Wouters.
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The Prodigal Son
Rubens places the Prodigal Son among the animals of a farm. He painted the panel on his own initiative and kept it in his private collection for the rest of his life.
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Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim
Red seraphim and blue cherubim surround Fouquet's Madonna and Child. This is the right-hand panel of a diptych; the other half, showing its patron Etienne Chevalier, is in Berlin.
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Check the photography rules first
KMSKA allows photos and video of artworks during opening hours with light equipment, without flash, for private use only, unless posted otherwise. Professional or commercial use is not permitted. Flash units, lamps, other lighting, tripods and microphone poles require prior written permission. Deposit selfie sticks and similar equipment, photographic spotlights and reflectors before entering the galleries; tripods must also be deposited unless permitted under the museum's written-authorization rule. Do not photograph technical equipment or installations, or film security personnel or installations. Recording staff or visitors requires both KMSKA's permission and their consent. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp photography policy
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