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Many Flemish and Walloon painters studied in Paris and adopted the new neoclassical style en vogue in the last decades of the 18th century. The Bruges painter Joseph-Benoît Suvée made a career in the French capital where he was a rival of Jacques-Louis David. The latter settled in Brussels after the fall of Napoleon.
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (French: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, pronounced [myze ʁwajo de boz‿aʁ də bɛlʒik]; Dutch: Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, pronounced [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə myːˈzeːjaː voːr ˈsxoːnə ˈkʏnstə(ɱ) vɑm ˈbɛlɣijə]) are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium.
This multidisciplinary space was designed to bring together a wide range of artistic events, whether music, visual arts, theatre, dance, literature, cinema or architecture. The building housing the Centre for Fine Arts was designed by the architect Victor Horta in Art Deco style, and completed in 1929 at the instigation of the banker and patron ...
The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (French: Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique [akademi ʁwajal de sjɑ̃s de lɛtʁ e de boz‿aʁ də bɛlʒik], sometimes referred to as La Thérésienne [la teʁezjɛn]) is the independent learned society of science and arts of the French Community of Belgium.
Volkswagen AG (German: [ˈfɔlksˌvaːɡn̩] ⓘ), known internationally as the Volkswagen Group, is a German public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of passenger and commercial vehicles, motorcycles, engines and turbomachinery.
The Mont des Arts (French, pronounced [mɔ̃ dez‿aʁ]) or Kunstberg (Dutch, pronounced [ˈkʏnstbɛr(ə)x] ⓘ), meaning "Hill/Mount of the Arts", is an urban complex and historic site in central Brussels, Belgium, including the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), the National Archives of Belgium, the Square – Brussels Meeting Centre, and a public garden.
Michel Draguet (born 23 January 1964) is a Belgian art historian, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, [1] and previously the director and CEO of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium since May 2005. [2]
Tintin and Snowy (), on the roof of the former headquarters of Le Lombard near Brussels-South railway station. Belgium has numerous well-known cartoonists, such as Hergé (The Adventures of Tintin), Peyo (), Franquin (Spirou et Fantasio, Marsupilami, Gaston), Willy Vandersteen (Spike and Suzy), Morris (), Edgar P. Jacobs (Blake and Mortimer), Jef Nys and Marc Sleen (). [9]