Belgium Royal Museums of Fine Arts

This guide to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels starts inside a Paris bathroom on a July evening in 1793, where revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat worked from a medicinal bath for his skin disease, and where a young woman named Charlotte Corday talked her way in claiming to carry the names of traitors. It follows the friendship between Marat and painter Jacques-Louis David, and how a single canvas came to travel from revolutionary France into this Brussels building a century later. Stand close to the canvas itself, in the room where it has hung since 1893.