San Fernando Fine Art Royal Academy

It is currently made up of fifty-six academics of recognized prestige in the various fields of Fine Arts and is structured into four departments with specialized personnel: Museum, National Chalcography, Library-Archive and Artistic Castings and Reproductions Workshop. Its extraordinary collections and the authority of its opinions make the Academy a unique institution. The Academy Museum is the second art gallery in Spain, after the Prado Museum, and includes more than 1,400 paintings, 1,300 sculptures and 15,000 drawings, as well as prints, furniture and decorative arts of various kinds, which offer a complete tour of the history of art from the Renaissance to the most current trends of the 21st century. Its fifty-nine rooms exhibit masterpieces of Spanish, Italian and Flemish art. Highlights include the Goya rooms, the only painting by Arcimboldo preserved in Spain, and works by great masters such as Tintoretto, El Greco, Rubens, Ribera, Zurbarán, Van Loo, Sorolla, Zuloaga, Solana, Rusiñol, Juan Gris, Picasso and Tàpies, among others. others.