Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels

Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels
  • Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles - École supérieure des Arts (French)
  • Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel (Dutch)
Entrance of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Rue du Midi/Zuidstraat, Brussels
TypeArt school
Established1711 (313 years ago) (1711)
Location
Brussels
,
Belgium

50°50′38″N 4°20′52″E / 50.8440°N 4.3477°E / 50.8440; 4.3477
Websitearba-esa.be/en

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (French: Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles - École supérieure des Arts (ARBA-ESA); Dutch: Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel) 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 [fr]. The school has played an important role in training leading local artists.[1]

  1. ^ "300 years of history of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts". City of Brussels. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.