Flanders - Finestre sull'Arte

The intrigue of James Ensor. And the meaning of his masks

James Ensor, painter and printmaker, was born in Ostend, Belgium, in 1860, developing his aesthetic identity amid the great artistic revolutions of Europe between the 19th and 20th centuries. He oscillated between Impressionism and Symbolism, but nev...
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Flanders sets its sights on James Ensor, marking the 75th anniversary of his death

For 2023, Flanders is focusing on James Ensor (Ostend, 1860 - 1949, the most important representative of Belgian Symbolism and one of the fathers of modernism, on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of his death. Indeed, VisitFlanders is co...
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Young Italian gallery owners sell important Flemish painting to Groeningemuseum in Bruges

Important result for Turin-based Caretto & Occhinegro Gallery at the prestigious TEFAF fair in Maastricht: the gallery, run by Massimiliano Caretto and Francesco Occhinegro, both under 40, has in fact announced the acquisition by the Groe...
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Van der Paele Madonna, Jan van Eyck's greatest work since the Gent Polyptych

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), canon...
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The works and places of Jan van Eyck in Bruges, in the heart of Flanders.

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 presented it...
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But how had Jan van Eyck managed to create such realistic works? This is how he arrived at his optical revolution

One of the most quoted literary passages about the great Jan van Eyck (Maaseik, c. 1390 - Bruges, 1441) is the incipit of the chapter devoted to him in Bartolomeo Facio 's De viris illustribus (La Spezia, c. 1400 - Naples, 1457): the treatise by ...
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Michaelina Wautier, story of a woman artist from seventeenth-century Flanders who defied all prejudice

"Glück glaubte ein Gemälde so grossen Formats der Hand einer Frau nicht zutrauen zu dürfen." That is, Glück did not believe that such a large-format painting was made by the hand of a woman. Writing these words was, in 1967, the then cu...
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The Polyptych of the Mystical Lamb: the masterpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck in Gent Cathedral

It was 1823 when, in Berlin, a restorer working on the Polyptych of the Mystic Lamb, one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of world art, removed some of the repainting and discovered an illuminating inscription, which read, "Pictor Hube...
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