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unusual facts about Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium


Museum voor Schone Kunsten

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België)


Charles Emmanuel Biset

His chief work is a large picture in the Brussels Gallery, formerly in the hall of the Archers' Guild at Antwerp, representing 'William Tell preparing to shoot the Apple from the Head of his Son.'

Gijsbert Claesz van Campen

van Campen and is today split into two parts; the left half is in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art, with an extra baby lower left added by Salomon de Bray in 1628, and the right half is in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Largely derived from Ovid, the painting is described in W. H. Auden's famous poem Musée des Beaux-Arts, named after the museum in which the painting is housed in Brussels, and became the subject of a poem of the same name by William Carlos Williams, as well as Lines on Bruegel's "Icarus" by Michael Hamburger.


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