Opened in 1793, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy is one of the oldest museums in France. It preserves an important collection of European paintings from the Renaissance and modern times. It is located in one of the buildings of the Place Stanislas, the main square of the new urban reconstruction that Nancy of which Nancy was the protagonist during the eighteenth century. The museum collection contains numerous works by the great masters of the European Renaissance. In particular, in the museum there is the "Virgin and Child with St. John" by Perugino, the "Annunciation" by Caravaggio and the "Deposition" by Tintoretto. There are also numerous protagonists of the beginning of modern painting, such as Delacroix, Manet, Monet, Signac, Modigliani, Picasso, Dufy, Mayern and several others.