Goya Museum
The Goya Museum (in French: Musée Goya) is an art museum located in Castres, France.[1] It is named after the Spanish painter Francisco Goya and has the largest collection of Spanish paintings in France, with works by Goya, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo, and Ribera.[citation needed] The museum was originally established in 1840 and has 28,000 visitors annually.
The museum is located in the old Bishop's Palace, which was built in 1675 and is based on the design of Jules Hardouin Mansart, who was an architect of the Palace of Versailles.[1] The gardens were designed by André Le Nôtre, who also worked at Versailles. In 1947, it became the only museum of Spanish paintings from the 14th/15th century onwards in France.
References
- ^ a b Goya Museum Archived 2009-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Les amis des Musées de Castres.
External links
- Goya Museum — Castres, France, The Techno-Impressionist Journal: A year in the life…, 20 October 2006.
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