Museums - Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid

This 2023 Correos dedicates 3 new stamps to the Museums series to promote the dissemination of Spanish culture through these centers that preserve, guard and disseminate the history of humanity. The leading museums are: Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country (Vitoria-Gasteiz); Art Nouveau and Art Deco Museum. Casa Lis (Salamanca); Museum of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid):

The artistic funds of the Museum of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, in Madrid, make it one of the best art galleries in Spain, covering five centuries and different schools, offering a complete journey through the history of art from the Renaissance to the latest trends of the 21st century. Its fifty-nine rooms, spread over three floors, display masterpieces. Arcimboldo, Ribera, Zurbarán, Rubens, Sorolla are names that can be admired in the Academy Museum, one minute from Puerta del Sol. The Academy also houses the Chalcography of Europe, where the plates of the most important documents are exhibited. important and fundamental reference works for the study of the history and theory of Fine Arts, is kept in the Library and Archives of this Royal Academy.