The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (PBA) is a Lille museum dedicated to fine arts. It is the largest museum of Fine Arts in France with the exception of the Louvre. Founded in 1801, with the decree in which the French minister Chaptal decided to build 15 museums of Fine Arts in as many cities of art, the museum preserves a vast collection of works of art, which cover an artistic period that goes from antiquity to the works of abstract art of the first half of the twentieth century. The museum is housed in a 19th-century Belle Époque-style building located in the city center, on Place de la République, specially made to house the museum collection. The vast collection inside covers all historical periods starting from antiquity: there are in fact various macro-departments, divided into multiple sectors: that of "Ancient Art, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" in which there are works of Egyptian and Greek art. and Roman, of Medieval and European Art of the '400, with artistic works of all European schools; then there are paintings from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, with works by the most important European artists; the sculpture department, the drawings and prints department, the ceramics department, the scale models department and finally the numismatic collection. Among the works of the most successful artists there are, among others, names such as Donatello, Raffaello, Veronese, Tintoretto, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, El Greco, Ribera, Giordano, Chardin, David, Goya, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Tissot, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Rodin, Claudel, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Moreau, Redon, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Van Gogh, Vuillard, Derain, Dufy, Sonia Delaunay, Picasso, Léger and Kupka.