The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels is an art school in Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1711. Starting from modest beginnings in a single room in Brussels' Town Hall, it has since 1876 been operating from a former convent and orphanage in the Rue du Midi/Zuidstraat, which was converted by the architect Victor Jamaer. The school has played an important role in training leading local artists.
Entrance of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Rue du Midi/Zuidstraat, Brussels
Brussels' Town Hall, where the Academy draws its origins
The Academy's entrance on the Rue du Midi in 1935 (photo by Léon van Dievoet)
Tilman-François Suys (date unknown): St. Antonius Church, Amsterdam.
René Magritte
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René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art.
Portrait of Magritte in front of his painting La perspective amoureuse, 1961
The Empire of Light, c. 1950–1954, Museum of Modern Art
The copy of Magritte's "The Nature of Man", on the facade of the New Middle School in Liebenau, Freistadt district.