National Museum of Fine Arts

National Museum of Fine Arts

Portuguese  Museu Nacional de Belas Artes,  

      national art collection, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, inherited from the Imperial Academy, later the Imperial Museum of Fine Arts. It was founded after the arrival of French artists in Brazil in 1816 and moved to its present building in 1904. The museum collection includes works of painting and sculpture by Brazilian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Coffee by Cândido Portinari and works by Emiliano de Cavalcanti and Tarsila do Amaral. Foreign art is well represented with a series of views of Pernambuco by Franz Post as well as by examples of European art from the 13th century to the present. The collection also includes coins, decorative arts, furniture, and African art.

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