Newsflash: New information enables Siska Beele to reconstruct the provenance of Cherries by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. This painting is now on view in the exhibition The MODERNS. Art from the Netherlands .
Research
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) is a public scientific institution of the Government of Flanders. With its vast collection of art, it is a leading research centre in the field of Flemish cultural heritage.
Studying the collection pieces and their history is one of the museum’s core assignments.
The findings of this research are recorded in the collection catalogue, a scientific
instrument that is essential to various aspects of the museum’s activities, including acquisitions,
conservation and restoration, collection access, education and presentations.
Four specific lines of research supplement this fundamental work. A first area of study is
the origin of the exquisite museum collection. Second, systematic research is conducted into the
unique
Peter Paul Rubens subcollection. More recently, a research programme has been
launched into the work of
James Ensor, an artist of whom KMSKA possesses the world’s largest collection. And
last but not least, the museum publishes a scientific annual. This and other museum publications,
alongside the institution’s involvement in training programmes and other collaborations, form the
spearhead of KMSKA’s knowledge dissemination
The museum possesses around thirty paintings and oil sketches by Rubens.
The museum's Rubens research focuses on all of the collection pieces by or attributed to the Master.
General information
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