Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours (English: Museum of Fine Arts of Tours) is located in the bishop's former palace, near the cathedral St. Gatien, where it has been since 1910. It displays rich and varied collections, including that of painting which is one of the first in France both in quality and the diversity of the works presented. Collections The museum has a large and fairly homogeneous collection of paintings, which includes several masterpieces such as two paintings by Andrea Mantegna , from the predella of the San Zeno Altarpiece : Collection of Italian Primitives shows works by Mantegna, Antonio Vivarini , Giovanni di Paolo , Lippo d'Andrea and Lorenzo Veneziano . Italian painting of the following centuries is represented by works of Giovanni Battista Moroni , Mattia Preti , Sebastiano Conca , Francesco Cairo and Giuseppe Bazzani . The French painting until the nineteenth is displayed by artists such as Claude Vignon.