Travel Belgium Bruges BRUSK Flanders Museums
Bruges is so beautiful that, at some point, you almost feel like ruining it. You feel the urge to run a fingernail across the polished surface of its facades, to smudge the reflection in the canals, to take that obscene precision with…
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BRUSK, a large open house destined to become the innovative hub of the future Bruges Museum Quarter and to redefine the way the city relates its art-historical heritage to the most advanced visions of contemporary creativity, will open in…
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Works and artists Ancient art Bruges Flanders Four hundred Jan van Eyck Renaissance
The Madonna of Joris van der Paele is the greatest work by Jan van Eyck (Maaseik, c. 1390 Bruges, 1441) since the Polyptych of the Mystic Lamb. The work was made between 1434 and 1436 at the behest of Joris van der Paele (c. 1370-c. 1443)…
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Works and artists Ancient art Bruges Flanders Four hundred Jan van Eyck Renaissance
In the early 1430s the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (Maaseik, c. 1390 - Bruges, 1441), after spending a year in Lille, moved to Bruges, in West Flanders, in the service of the Dukes of Burgundy. The city, which since the Middle Ages had…
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