Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

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Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Palacio de Goyeneche
Abbreviation	RABASF
Formation	1752; 272 years ago (1752)
Type	Learned society, fine arts academy, art museum
Legal status	public law corporation
Headquarters	Palacio de Goyeneche [es]
Location	Calle de Alcalá 13, Madrid, Spain
Coordinates	40°25′4.1″N 3°42′2.5″W / 40.417806°N 3.700694°W / 40.417806; -3.700694
Affiliations	Instituto de España [es]

The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; transl. 'Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando'), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the centre of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal academies in the Instituto de España [es].^[1]

History

The academy was established by royal decree in 1752. About twenty years later, the enlightened monarch Charles III purchased a palace in Madrid as the academy's new home. The building had been designed by José Benito de Churriguera for the Goyeneche family. The king commissioned Diego de Villanueva to convert the building for academic use, employing a neoclassical style^[2] in place of Churriguera's baroque design.

The academy is also the headquarters of the Madrid Academy of Art.

Notable alumni

The first graduate of the academy was Bárbara María Hueva.^[3] Francisco Goya was once one of the academy's directors. Its alumni include Felip Pedrell, Pablo Picasso, Kiko Argüello, Remedios Varo, Salvador Dalí, Antonio López García, Juan Luna, Fernando Amorsolo, Oscar de la Renta, Francesc Daniel Molina i Casamajó, Ricardo Macarrón,^[4] Alicia Iturrioz,^[5] Fernando Botero.^[6][7], and Melecio Figueroa.

Notable academics

• Mariana de Silva-Bazán y Sarmiento (1739-1784), aristocratic figure, writer, painter, translator
• Juan Luis Vassallo, sculptor.^[8]

Collection

Doubling as a museum and gallery, today it houses a fine art collection of paintings from the 15th to 20th centuries:

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  La primavera, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1563)^[9]
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  San Jerónimo, El Greco (c. 1605–1610)^[10]
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  La Última Cena, copy of Tintoretto by Diego Velázquez (1629?)^[11]
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  Asunción de la Magdalena,

  José de Ribera (1636)^[12]
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  Venus, Mercurio y el Amor,

  Louis Michel van Loo (1748)^[13]
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  Alegoría de la Paz y la Justicia, Corrado Giaquinto (1754)
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  Retrato de la marquesa de Llano, Anton Raphael Mengs (1770)^[14]
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  Francisco de Goya (c. 1792)^[15]
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  Retrato de Isabel II,

  Federico de Madrazo (1844)^[16]
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  Frutero y periódico, Juan Gris (1920)^[17]