Musée des Beaux-Arts

Founded in 1783, the Museum of Fine Arts is primarily a museum of paintings. It also has several sculptures including a mask wife and a beautiful Laurana astrolabe. The collection of Italian primitives of the Renaissance is complemented by the presentation of the main altarpiece of the Trinity as Bartolo di Fredi painted in the late fourteenth century. Northern schools are partially represented, including two paintings from 1520-1530 polyptychs dismembered: The Adoration of the Magi, attributed to Jan Van Dornick and The Flagellation of Christ by Anton von Worms Woensam said. The Italian Baroque period is particularly rich. For the seventeenth century, do not miss "The astronomer, in shades of brown treated" by Luca Giordano, which executed the decoration of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence, and, in the eighteenth century, the subtle play of colors and lights "The Descent from the Cross" of Neapolitan Solimena ... Another masterpiece of work of light and shadow, from the French classicism, is to see: "The Brawl musicians" by Georges de La Tour. Not to mention the famous "Game of the range" of the Italian period of Fragonard. The nineteenth century is best represented by a series of paintings neo classical (Langlois, Peytavin), and some regional painters as Xavier de Maistre. With the birth of a true Savoyard school after the school of painting Chambéry, these paintings are more regional in the twentieth century with talented painters as Cariffa, André Jacques, Cachoud, Joseph Communal ...